Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 177 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 177 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book X.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Socrates rebut the definition of virtue offered by the poets?
(a) By giving Meno a solid definition of virtue.
(b) By proving to Meno that there are many commonly held virtues.
(c) By showing Meno that all men desire good things, but that not all men are virtuous.
(d) By instructing Meno that it is impossible to have an abstract entity which moves other things but does not move itself.

2. Which one of the following scenarios, according to Socrates, would most likely give rise to a tyrannical government?
(a) A man, claiming to save the poor from the rich in a democracy, rising to power and being immediately corrupted by it.
(b) A merchant purchasing secret information about the government and using it to blackmail congress.
(c) A hero completing a mythical quest which bestows immortality upon him.
(d) A military lieutenant from within the general's ranks making a grab for power to control the timocracy.

3. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.
(a) He chastizes Socrates for asking questions freely, but dodging them when he is asked a question himself.
(b) He likes the Socratic method of reasoning.
(c) He hates Socrates and thinks Socrates is stupid.
(d) He can't follow Socrates' logic.

4. If led by true philosophers, Socrates argues that the republic would__________________.
(a) Be the most powerful state in the world.
(b) Deal justly with foreigners.
(c) Reflect the same perfect justice, beauty, and goodness of its leaders.
(d) Not negotiate with other nations.

5. How does Meno respond to Socrates' question: "Do bees differ as bees, because there are many different kinds of them; or, are they not rather to be distinguished by some other quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape?"
(a) "I don't understand your question."
(b) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(c) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(d) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates' radical math, the tyrant's life is 729 times________.

2. According to Socrates' view of justice, a ruler should always:

3. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?

4. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.

5. Which subject should be taught last in Socrates' curriculum?

(see the answer key)

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