Great Dialogues Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Great Dialogues Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the rulers in Socrates' republic?
(a) The warriors.
(b) The doctors.
(c) The students.
(d) The philosophers.

2. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Eryximachus.
(d) Phaedrus.

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

4. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?
(b) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(c) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(d) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?

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

6. To which other creative art does Socrates propose censorship?
(a) Dance.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) History.
(d) Music.

7. In Book V, Socrates admits which of the following about his republic?
(a) Many people would have to be brainwashed before they would live in such a city.
(b) Though theoretically sound, such a city might not be actually possible.
(c) He hopes his city is built, just not in his lifetime.
(d) His city will rule the world.

8. The common man is not concerned with beauty itself, but ___________.
(a) He concerns himself with only practical matters.
(b) He is concerned with more abstract notions.
(c) He is concerned for his soul.
(d) He is concerned with beautiful things.

9. What are the soldiers of the republic explicitly forbidden to do, according to Socrates?
(a) Commit atrocities, such as enslavement and land-burning, against fellow Greeks.
(b) Take bribes.
(c) Have sex with non-family members.
(d) Execute war criminals.

10. In his first argument, Glaucon asserts that is better to __________.
(a) Be unjust than appear unjust.
(b) Appear just than actually be just.
(c) Be just than appear just.
(d) Appear unjust than actually be just.

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

12. Why is Socrates worried about literature which contains wayward characters?
(a) He wants every story for have a moral.
(b) He thinks that people will imitate such characters.
(c) Socrates hates fiction.
(d) Socrates is not worried about such fictional characters.

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

14. How does Socrates plan to keep the soldiers of the republic from fighting?
(a) He reasons that if they belonged to the same family, they would not fight.
(b) He reasons that if they make the most money, they will always be happy.
(c) Socrates does not have a measure for ensuring peace among the guardian-class.
(d) He trusts that anyone who becomes a solider would put his state before his personal emotions.

15. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.
(a) Mysterious.
(b) Negative.
(c) Positive.
(d) Foreboding.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?

2. Which demographic of the Athenian population does Socrates single out for discussion?

3. According to Socrates, woman can____________.

4. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?

5. In order to respond to Glaucon's objections, Socrates ___________________.

(see the answer keys)

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