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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Socrates firmly believes that poetry _____________.
(a) Is philosophy of the heart.
(b) Is instrumental in helping the common man understand larger issues.
(c) Tends to prevent men from leading good lives.
(d) Must be philosophy to be considered poetry.

3. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(b) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(c) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(d) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?

4. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(b) Agathon's poetic license.
(c) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(d) Whether loves is necessarily possible.

5. What is a democracy?
(a) Rule by the rich.
(b) Rule by the poor.
(c) Rule by the elite.
(d) Rule by the military.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates argues that laws are___________.

2. Whom does Socrates think is the fourth (and least) happiest social class of man in the republic?

3. Why does Socrates discuss Asclepius' philosophy?

4. Describe Thrasymachus' view of Socrates.

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

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