Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz E

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?
(b) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(c) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(d) Is justice necessarily a good thing?

2. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:
(a) A proposition can only be deemed valid if it is testable in the empirical world.
(b) There can never be universal ethics.
(c) Learning is really a recollection of old knowledge.
(d) Non- virtuous people can still perform virtuous actions

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

4. What is the major point of Aristophanes' speech?
(a) Love is the desire for unity, because man and woman were once a unified being.
(b) Love is as complicated and confusing as good poetry.
(c) Men loving woman is necessarily better than men loving men, because the former allows for procreation.
(d) Everything eventually dies, so it is pointless to love anything.

5. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?
(a) Himself, because he does not think himself a good exemplar of what virtue is.
(b) Socrates, because Socrates is deliberately confusing Meno about a subject which Meno thought he knew.
(c) Himself, because he has not had ample time to prepare for a deep conversation.
(d) Socrates, because Socrates is not listening to Meno's points.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Republic: Book III, Socrates is first concerned with:

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

4. Why does Glaucon continue conversing with Socrates?

5. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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