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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the three social classes in the republic, according to Socrates?
(a) The rich, the poor, and the middle class.
(b) The leaders, the rebels, and everyone else.
(c) The working-class, the soldiers, and the rulers.
(d) The philosophers, the sophists, and the warriors.

2. What are "the three"?
(a) The diagram that Socrates uses to prove the soul is immortal.
(b) The constitution of the city's government.
(c) The members of the dialogue.
(d) Religious temples in Socrates' ideal republic.

3. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(b) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
(c) Agathon's poetic license.
(d) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.

4. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.
(a) He hates Socrates and thinks Socrates is stupid.
(b) He can't follow Socrates' logic.
(c) He chastizes Socrates for asking questions freely, but dodging them when he is asked a question himself.
(d) He likes the Socratic method of reasoning.

5. According to Socrates, what are the three parts of the soul?
(a) Rationality, spirit, and appetite.
(b) Hate, love, and desire.
(c) Goodness, badness, and curiosity.
(d) Thoughtfulness, mindfulness, and power.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?

2. In Socrates' republic, judges must__________.

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

4. Who is Eryximachus?

5. According to Socrates, where would the republic's leaders live?

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