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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?
(a) Ion knows more than Socrates.
(b) Ion is sad when his crowds are sad and happy when his crowds are happy.
(c) Ion is a handsome, though misguided poet.
(d) Ion must be outside his mind when he recites poetry.

2. Socrates thinks that poets and painters are_____________.
(a) Like gods, establishing reality through art.
(b) Imitators, only representing the things they try and capture.
(c) Useless and idle.
(d) Categorically intelligent.

3. What does Socrates think his dream means?
(a) Socrates will go to heaven after he dies.
(b) A foreshadowed vision of Crito coming to visit him.
(c) The kingdom of man is not so different from the animal kingdom.
(d) The boat which was supposed to arrive the same day, would not arrive until tomorrow, thereby delaying his execution.

4. What analogies does Socrates employ to refute Thrasymachus' position on justice?
(a) He compares a money-maker to a philosopher and a clergyman.
(b) He compares democracy to dictatorship and aristocracy.
(c) He compares justice to food, both nourishing the soul.
(d) He compares the skill of a leader to the respective skills of a doctor, house-builder, and sailor.

5. Complete the comparison: philosophers have wisdom whereas common men have _______
(a) Judgment.
(b) Obligation.
(c) Opinions.
(d) Expertise.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what did the Oracle at Delphi tell Socrates and Cherephon?

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

3. Socrates argues that the philosopher __________.

4. Ultimately, Socrates concludes that justice is______________.

5. What is Crito's relationship to Socrates?

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