1. Why does Socrates speak about dogs and other animals to Glaucon?
(a) Socrates likes animals more than people.
(b) To establish grounds for a society in which people function like animals in a natural kingdom.
(c) In order to show, by analogy, that it is difficult albeit not impossible to have people who are both gentle and aggressive.
(d) In hopes of finding the source of virtue.

2. What is a symposium?
(a) An outdoor gathering of philosophers near a nobleman's residence.
(b) An all- night drinking party where various elite Greeks discuss the meaning of love.
(c) A small club of Sophists.
(d) An ancient restaurant.

3. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(b) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(c) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?
(d) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?

4. In Socrates' ideal city, poets and soothsayers:
(a) Would be rich while the workers would be poor.
(b) Would not be allowed to speak falsely about the gods.
(c) Would lead religious ceremonies.
(d) Would be considered useless and expelled.

5. Who is the surprise visitor to the symposium, and why does he come?
(a) There is no surprise visitor.
(b) Appolodorus comes because he is angry he wasn't invited.
(c) Alcibiades comes because he is drunk and wants to seduce Socrates.
(d) Aristotle arrives late because he traveled farther than the others.