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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Socrates discuss Asclepius' philosophy?
(a) His leadership is a good example of how not to lead.
(b) He disagrees with Socrates about the ideal republic.
(c) His leadership is well established.
(d) He has a practical approach of only treating patients whom he knows he can heal.

2. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?
(a) He claims to know justice, but doesn't.
(b) He is just.
(c) It doesn't matter; one would never do this.
(d) He is unjust.

3. In Republic: Book III, Socrates is first concerned with:
(a) The end of the world.
(b) The corruption of the youth.
(c) A citizens' revolt.
(d) Methods of practicing medicine.

4. From which poet does Polemarchus derive his definition of justice?
(a) Pindar.
(b) Homer.
(c) Simonides.
(d) Aristophenes.

5. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.
(b) Socrates' trial.
(c) Agathon's drinking party.
(d) A game at the Coliseum.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Polemarchus define justice?

2. One virtue that Socrates constantly refers to in his reasoning throughout Book III is_____________.

3. What are "the three"?

4. By the end of Book IV Socrates has still not proved _______________.

5. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.

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