1. What is one example that Socrates uses to suggest that the city has already turned against him?
(a) Aristophanes' play Clouds.
(b) The uproar in the courtroom when he speaks.
(c) His conversation with Meno before the hearing.
(d) Gorgias of Leontini's Poetics.

2. In Socrates' republic, judges must__________.
(a) Be good, but able to spot evil.
(b) Be completely removed from evil.
(c) Be fair and strict.
(d) Be fair and lax.

3. What do Socrates' interlocutors object to in the beginning of Book V?
(a) All children and women should be shared (and raised) in common.
(b) They do not give Socrates any objections until later in the dialogue.
(c) Children must be born on the 7th of the month.
(d) All property would be owned by a family.

4. According to Socrates in Book VII, how many years must a philosopher work after finishing his education in order to become a ruler?
(a) Thirty years.
(b) One year.
(c) Five years.
(d) Fifteen years.

5. Which one of the following scenarios, according to Socrates, would most likely give rise to a tyrannical government?
(a) A merchant purchasing secret information about the government and using it to blackmail congress.
(b) A man, claiming to save the poor from the rich in a democracy, rising to power and being immediately corrupted by it.
(c) A hero completing a mythical quest which bestows immortality upon him.
(d) A military lieutenant from within the general's ranks making a grab for power to control the timocracy.