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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 are leaders chosen in Socrates' ideal republic?
(a) They would all be the soldiers in training who appeared to love their city more than most.
(b) The richest members of the republic will lead it.
(c) Every citizen would have equal access to political power.
(d) They would be elected by the common men.

2. Where is courage found in Socrates' republic?
(a) In the labors who toil in the sun.
(b) In the lawyers and judges who fight injustice.
(c) In the soldiers who fight for it.
(d) In the academics who strive for truth.

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

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

5. 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?

Short Answer Questions

1. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

2. In order to respond to Glaucon's objections, Socrates ___________________.

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. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.

5. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?

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