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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book IX,what is the soldier's deepest pleasure?
(a) Strength.
(b) Material gain.
(c) Honor.
(d) Truth.

2. Glaucon offers Socrates a proof that ____________________.
(a) A just life is better than a just one.
(b) Justice can't have a consistent definition.
(c) An unjust lifestyle is more rewarding than a just one.
(d) Appearing unjust but actually being just is most desirable.

3. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?
(a) Eryximachus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Phaedrus.

4. Socrates believes that the Sophists________________.
(a) Are evil imitators posing as philosophers.
(b) Have values worth learning from.
(c) Should be exiled on grounds of impiety.
(d) Are philosophers themselves.

5. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
(a) Justice personified.
(b) The individual soul.
(c) Collective consciousness.
(d) The natural animal kingdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which other creative art does Socrates propose censorship?

2. With whom does Socrates discuss the education of soldiers and philosophers?

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

4. Which demographic of the Athenian population does Socrates single out for discussion?

5. Why does Socrates speak about dogs and other animals to Glaucon?

(see the answer key)

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