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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Phaedo.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of Book IV, Adeimantus ask Socrates__________________.
(a) Why Socrates adopts such a strange view of medicine.
(b) Why the city's soldiers should be deprived of material happiness.
(c) When Socrates thinks it feasible for his city to exist.
(d) Where Socrates plans to get resources to build his city.

2. Why does Socrates speak about dogs and other animals to Glaucon?
(a) Socrates likes animals more than people.
(b) In order to show, by analogy, that it is difficult albeit not impossible to have people who are both gentle and aggressive.
(c) In hopes of finding the source of virtue.
(d) To establish grounds for a society in which people function like animals in a natural kingdom.

3. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"
(a) Meno.
(b) The slave boy.
(c) Meno's wife.
(d) Socrates.

4. Whose side is Adeimantus on, at least in the beginning of the dialogue?
(a) He has his own distinct position.
(b) Glaucon's.
(c) Socrates'.
(d) He does not advocate his own position, and he is on neither Glaucon's nor Socrates' side.

5. Who said the following: "Whether in battle or in a court of law, or in any other place, he must do what his city and his country order him; or he must change their view of what is just"?
(a) Socrates' son.
(b) A prison guard.
(c) One of Socrates' students.
(d) Phaedo's assistant.

Short Answer Questions

1. From Socrates' point of view, the philosopher is __________ than the tyrant.

2. After the verdict, Socrates warns the Athenian jury that________.

3. According to Socrates' opinion, what is the second happiest social class of man in the world?

4. According to Socrates, to what does a true philosopher owe his life?

5. When Phaedo first arrives at the prison, what is Socrates doing?

(see the answer key)

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