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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What types of stories, according to Socrates, ought we to read to children when they are very young?
(a) False ones (myths) that are not grounded in any truth.
(b) True ones with only true elements
(c) True ones with false elements.
(d) False ones (myths), with a true element.

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

3. In Book V, Socrates admits which of the following about his republic?
(a) Many people would have to be brainwashed before they would live in such a city.
(b) He hopes his city is built, just not in his lifetime.
(c) Though theoretically sound, such a city might not be actually possible.
(d) His city will rule the world.

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

5. In Ion, Socrates compares Ion to which of the following?
(a) Greek artists and sculptors.
(b) Musicians.
(c) Religious prophets.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are the rulers in Socrates' republic?

2. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?

3. Why is Socrates worried about literature which contains wayward characters?

4. What does Socrates assert about his views of the ideal state?

5. What is the major point of Aristophanes' speech?

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