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

2. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?
(a) Meno.
(b) Alcibides.
(c) Diotima.
(d) Plato.

3. Who is the surprise visitor to the symposium, and why does he come?
(a) There is no surprise visitor.
(b) Appolodorus comes because he is angry he wasn't invited.
(c) Alcibiades comes because he is drunk and wants to seduce Socrates.
(d) Aristotle arrives late because he traveled farther than the others.

4. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?
(a) It cannot be taught and is therefore not knowledge.
(b) If it can be taught then it is knowledge.
(c) If it is the same in everyone, then we should be able to define it.
(d) If it manifests differently in different people, than it cannot have one definition.

5. In his first argument, Glaucon asserts that is better to __________.
(a) Be just than appear just.
(b) Appear just than actually be just.
(c) Be unjust than appear unjust.
(d) Appear unjust than actually be just.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?

2. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:

3. Socrates explains that the common man sees the philosopher as useless because_________.

4. What is a symposium?

5. Which of the following ideas are not mentioned in Book VI?

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