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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book III.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?
(a) A poem's content always belongs to the one who recites it.
(b) A poem's content cannot belong to the one who recites it.
(c) If poetry consists of statements which belong to other arts, then such "other arts" are actually one thing.
(d) Poetry was not meant to be read aloud.

2. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(b) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
(c) Agathon's poetic license.
(d) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.

3. Glaucon offers Socrates a proof that ____________________.
(a) Justice can't have a consistent definition.
(b) An unjust lifestyle is more rewarding than a just one.
(c) Appearing unjust but actually being just is most desirable.
(d) A just life is better than a just one.

4. What analogies does Socrates employ to refute Thrasymachus' position on justice?
(a) He compares a money-maker to a philosopher and a clergyman.
(b) He compares the skill of a leader to the respective skills of a doctor, house-builder, and sailor.
(c) He compares democracy to dictatorship and aristocracy.
(d) He compares justice to food, both nourishing the soul.

5. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?
(a) Appolodorus.
(b) Diotima.
(c) Aristophenes.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which poet does Polemarchus derive his definition of justice?

2. One virtue that Socrates constantly refers to in his reasoning throughout Book III is_____________.

3. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?

4. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?

5. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.

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