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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Phaedo.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Socrates' radical math, the tyrant's life is 729 times________.
(a) Less pleasant than the philosopher's life.
(b) Less exciting than the soldier's life.
(c) More worthy than an elected leader's life.
(d) More laudable than the common man's life.
2. Socrates firmly believes that poetry _____________.
(a) Is philosophy of the heart.
(b) Tends to prevent men from leading good lives.
(c) Is instrumental in helping the common man understand larger issues.
(d) Must be philosophy to be considered poetry.
3. Meletus claims that Socrates said which of the following?
(a) "That the gods do not exist."
(b) "Everything is unified and there is no such thing as particulars."
(c) "That the sun's a stone and the moon is earth."
(d) "There is no good reason to follow Athenian law."
4. What challenges does Cebes raise for Socrates?
(a) There might be no immortal soul, and when you die, there is only nothingness.
(b) Philosophy is not a worthwhile activity if it lands one in jail under capital punishment.
(c) There is legal precedent for breaking out of jail.
(d) Socrates can still appeal the verdict.
5. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?
(a) If poetry consists of statements which belong to other arts, then such "other arts" are actually one thing.
(b) A poem's content cannot belong to the one who recites it.
(c) Poetry was not meant to be read aloud.
(d) A poem's content always belongs to the one who recites it.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Glaucon?
2. What does Crito want Socrates to do?
3. Complete the comparison: philosophers have wisdom whereas common men have _______
4. If led by true philosophers, Socrates argues that the republic would__________________.
5. What is Crito's relationship to Socrates?
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