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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why would candidates for a philosopher-king class in the republic be tested?
(a) To ensure that they can endure different types of intellectual life.
(b) To enjoy a life of task and reward.
(c) To prove that they are stronger than their adversaries.
(d) To show that they have no skeletons in their closets.

2. To which other creative art does Socrates propose censorship?
(a) Music.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) History.
(d) Dance.

3. According to Socrates, to what does a true philosopher owe his life?
(a) The people.
(b) His God.
(c) The state.
(d) His parents.

4. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Polemarchus.
(c) Thrasymachus.
(d) Glaucon.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?

3. What are "the three"?

4. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?

5. In Book V, Socrates admits which of the following about his republic?

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