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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 pressed by Socrates to explain his skill, Ion asserts which of the following?
(a) He is unqualified to comment on the artistic value of the his recitations.
(b) Socrates should not be asking him questions.
(c) When he recites poetry he feels like the poet himself.
(d) When he recites passage about military exploits he cannot tell if he does so with the candor of a general.

2. How does Socrates defend the point that men and women are equal?
(a) Men need women to exist (and vice-versa), so man and woman are better regarded as parts of a whole rather than individuals.
(b) Though men are physically stronger, women are emotionally stronger.
(c) Though they have different natures, they can perform the same tasks.
(d) Though they have different external organs, their internal ones are similar.

3. Socrates argues that the philosopher __________.
(a) Is idle only in body, but not in mind.
(b) Takes pleasure in knowledge, has a good memory, and is a virtuous person.
(c) Does not take kindly to dissent.
(d) Is quick-witted and knows how to get what he wants.

4. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?
(a) Homer.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Shakespeare.

5. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) A game at the Coliseum.
(b) Agathon's drinking party.
(c) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.
(d) Socrates' trial.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an aristocracy?

2. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.

3. In Book VII Socrates weaves an analogy suggesting that the common man is like________.

4. Adeimantus interrupts Socrates in the beginning of Book VI to ask him ____________.

5. By the end of Book IV Socrates has still not proved _______________.

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