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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates' opinion, what is the second happiest social class of man in the world?
(a) The tyrant.
(b) The merchant.
(c) The timocratic man.
(d) The democratic man.

2. Toward the end of Book IV Socrates weaves an analogy between________________.
(a) Heaven and hell.
(b) Father and son.
(c) The individual and the city.
(d) The citizen and the king.

3. According to Socrates' radical math, the tyrant's life is 729 times________.
(a) More worthy than an elected leader's life.
(b) Less pleasant than the philosopher's life.
(c) More laudable than the common man's life.
(d) Less exciting than the soldier's life.

4. In Book V, what is the philosopher concerned with, according to Socrates?
(a) The afterlife.
(b) Justice, and only justice.
(c) Absolute being.
(d) Beautiful things.

5. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?
(a) He is just.
(b) It doesn't matter; one would never do this.
(c) He is unjust.
(d) He claims to know justice, but doesn't.

Short Answer Questions

1. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?

2. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?

3. According to Socrates' opinion, what does the common man's simple mind cause him to mistake?

4. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?

5. Socrates thinks that poets and painters are_____________.

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