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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The evil of the soul, explained in Book X by Socrates, is ___________.
(a) Fire.
(b) Treason.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Injustice.

2. With whom does Socrates discuss the education of soldiers and philosophers?
(a) Agathon.
(b) Adeimantus.
(c) Meno.
(d) Glaucon.

3. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Foreboding.
(c) Negative.
(d) Positive.

4. Socrates believes that unjust men_________.
(a) Will be punished in death.
(b) Don't deserve death and should have to live forever.
(c) Will not necessarily be punished in death.
(d) Will be rewarded by the unjust gods.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When first asked by Socrates to define virtue, Meno responds with which of the following?

2. In Republic: Book III, Socrates is first concerned with:

3. Socrates thinks that poets and painters are_____________.

4. Socrates firmly believes that poetry _____________.

5. In the then-present Greece, Socrates believes that __________.

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