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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dimotia characterize love?
(a) Crude and deceitful, like the desire for immortality.
(b) Curious and enigmatic, like the Gods.
(c) Beautiful and pure, like virtue or reason.
(d) Grounded and rational, like a mathematical equation.

2. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"
(a) Socrates.
(b) The slave boy.
(c) Meno.
(d) Meno's wife.

3. Ultimately, Socrates concludes that justice is______________.
(a) The power of the stronger.
(b) A proper organization, balancing the various faculties of the soul.
(c) Completely unknowable, but nevertheless necessary.
(d) Completely unknowable and therefore obsolete.

4. Socrates explains that the common man sees the philosopher as useless because_________.
(a) He is concerned with the soul, not with books.
(b) He is self-serving, and, therefore, despises those who judge him.
(c) He is blinded by ignorance, not seeing the intrinsic importance to their purpose.
(d) He mistakes thoughfulness for idleness.

5. To Socrates, government is best analogized as being similar to the human _________.
(a) Brain.
(b) Soul.
(c) Heart.
(d) Limbs.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a consequence of misology, or a hatred of logic/reasoning, Socrates explains how the common man has trouble_________.

2. How does Socrates regard an oligarchy?

3. Where is wisdom found in Socrates' ideal republic?

4. What assertion is made by Socrates when he responds to Adeimantus' point?

5. Tyranny is most likely to occur under which form of government?

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