Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?
(a) Socrates shows Polemarchus that every man is intrinsically free, regardless of the law.
(b) Socrates shows Polemarchus that stealing from the rich is unjust.
(c) Socrates reasons that it is impossible to determine what is fair in every situation.
(d) Socrates asserts that doing evil, even to an evil man, makes the doer unjust.

2. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
(a) Only a person who understands a poem's meaning could be a good reciter.
(b) Ion should memorize philosophy instead of poetry.
(c) Ion must not know the meaning of poetry if he just memorizes it.
(d) Memorizing poetry is a way of balancing the soul.

3. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
(a) The natural animal kingdom.
(b) The individual soul.
(c) Collective consciousness.
(d) Justice personified.

4. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.
(b) Glaucon's own virtue.
(c) Justice as it relates to a small family.
(d) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.

5. Ultimately, Socrates concludes that justice is______________.
(a) The power of the stronger.
(b) Completely unknowable, but nevertheless necessary.
(c) A proper organization, balancing the various faculties of the soul.
(d) Completely unknowable and therefore obsolete.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Ion, Socrates compares Ion to which of the following?

3. What are "the three"?

4. Describe Meno's appearance and attitude when he meets Socrates.

5. Toward the end of Book IV Socrates weaves an analogy between________________.

(see the answer key)

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