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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When he first address the jury, Socrates_________.
(a) Says he will not fight the slander of others with slander.
(b) Excuses himself for speaking in common language familiar to him.
(c) Asks a lot of questions.
(d) Vehemently denies the accusations against him.

2. In Book IX,what is the soldier's deepest pleasure?
(a) Honor.
(b) Material gain.
(c) Strength.
(d) Truth.

3. What types of stories, according to Socrates, ought we to read to children when they are very young?
(a) True ones with false elements.
(b) False ones (myths) that are not grounded in any truth.
(c) True ones with only true elements
(d) False ones (myths), with a true element.

4. In Apology, Socrates defends himself specifically from accusations made by___________.
(a) The Sophists and the Arians.
(b) Meletus.
(c) Evenus of Paros.
(d) Meno.

5. Glaucon offers Socrates a proof that ____________________.
(a) Justice can't have a consistent definition.
(b) An unjust lifestyle is more rewarding than a just one.
(c) A just life is better than a just one.
(d) Appearing unjust but actually being just is most desirable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Socrates regard a timocracy?

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

3. According to Socrates in Book VII, to what should all philosophers aspire?

4. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?

5. What is one example that Socrates uses to suggest that the city has already turned against him?

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