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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(b) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(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?

2. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Useless.
(c) Universal.
(d) Ironic.

3. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?
(a) A nearby guard who speaks about virtuous people he knows.
(b) Plato to clarify Socrates' words for a perplexed Meno.
(c) Meno's wife.
(d) A nearby slave boy to whom he teaches simple geometry.

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

5. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?
(a) Hesoid's Theogeny.
(b) Heretical poetry by Shakespeare and Ben Johnson.
(c) Various works by Pindar.
(d) Aristotle's Poetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"

2. Socrates argues that laws are___________.

3. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?

4. What is a symposium?

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

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