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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 pressed by Socrates to explain his skill, Ion asserts which of the following?
(a) When he recites poetry he feels like the poet himself.
(b) He is unqualified to comment on the artistic value of the his recitations.
(c) Socrates should not be asking him questions.
(d) When he recites passage about military exploits he cannot tell if he does so with the candor of a general.
2. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?
(a) If it can be taught then it is knowledge.
(b) It cannot be taught and is therefore not knowledge.
(c) If it manifests differently in different people, than it cannot have one definition.
(d) If it is the same in everyone, then we should be able to define it.
3. According to Socrates, what are the two ways of training the soul?
(a) Mediation and medicine.
(b) Conversation with oneself and with others.
(c) Physical exercise and literary education.
(d) Religion and philosophy.
4. How does Meno respond to Socrates' question: "Do bees differ as bees, because there are many different kinds of them; or, are they not rather to be distinguished by some other quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape?"
(a) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(b) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(c) "I don't understand your question."
(d) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
5. Where is courage found in Socrates' republic?
(a) In the labors who toil in the sun.
(b) In the academics who strive for truth.
(c) In the soldiers who fight for it.
(d) In the lawyers and judges who fight injustice.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?
2. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?
3. Toward the end of Book IV Socrates weaves an analogy between________________.
4. Why does Socrates speak about dogs and other animals to Glaucon?
5. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?
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