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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Ion, Socrates compares Ion to which of the following?
(a) Plato.
(b) Greek artists and sculptors.
(c) Religious prophets.
(d) Musicians.

2. Which demographic of the Athenian population does Socrates single out for discussion?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The citizens.
(c) The lawyers.
(d) The sophists.

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

4. In his first argument, Glaucon asserts that is better to __________.
(a) Be just than appear just.
(b) Appear unjust than actually be just.
(c) Be unjust than appear unjust.
(d) Appear just than actually be just.

5. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?
(a) Adeimantus.
(b) Thrasymachus.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Glaucon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?

2. What does Cephalus say to Socrates about old age?

3. When Ion admits to Socrates that he can only recite one poet's work well, Socrates is puzzled by which of the following?

4. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?

5. How does Dimotia characterize love?

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