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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?
(a) Universal.
(b) Useless.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Subjective.

2. Socrates argues that laws are___________.
(a) Worthy formal pursuits.
(b) Rigid and static, unlike the people they control.
(c) Misguided because no one law holds true categorically.
(d) Affected by the flow of everyday life, and thus should not be formulated individually.

3. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?
(a) A poem's content cannot belong to the one who recites it.
(b) If poetry consists of statements which belong to other arts, then such "other arts" are actually one thing.
(c) A poem's content always belongs to the one who recites it.
(d) Poetry was not meant to be read aloud.

4. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Adeimantus.
(c) Thrasymachus.
(d) Glaucon.

5. Who is Glaucon?
(a) One of the interlocutors.
(b) Socrates' son.
(c) Not philosophically ambitious.
(d) The ideal solider.

6. 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) Socrates does not have a measure for ensuring peace among the guardian-class.
(c) He reasons that if they make the most money, they will always be happy.
(d) He trusts that anyone who becomes a solider would put his state before his personal emotions.

7. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
(a) Ion should memorize philosophy instead of poetry.
(b) Only a person who understands a poem's meaning could be a good reciter.
(c) Ion must not know the meaning of poetry if he just memorizes it.
(d) Memorizing poetry is a way of balancing the soul.

8. What does Socrates assert about his views of the ideal state?
(a) They will bring about the coming of a new empire.
(b) They are without flaw.
(c) They break certain established social norms.
(d) They are based on insidious accusations against the current ruling power.

9. What counter-example does Socrates employ as evidence that a state is flawed?
(a) "Rich" soldiers in other cities make poor soldiers and poor leaders.
(b) Poor doctors exist where there are poor statesmen.
(c) Diplomats make more money than labors in problematic regions.
(d) When innocent men are sentenced to death, a state is flawed.

10. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) A game at the Coliseum.
(b) Socrates' trial.
(c) Agathon's drinking party.
(d) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.

11. How are leaders chosen in Socrates' ideal republic?
(a) The richest members of the republic will lead it.
(b) They would be elected by the common men.
(c) Every citizen would have equal access to political power.
(d) They would all be the soldiers in training who appeared to love their city more than most.

12. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Thrasymachus.
(c) Glaucon.
(d) Polemarchus.

13. What poet is cited by Cephalus to explain the paradox of old age?
(a) Petrach.
(b) Homer.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Pindar.

14. 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) Have sex with non-family members.
(c) Execute war criminals.
(d) Take bribes.

15. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"
(a) Meno.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Meno's wife.
(d) The slave boy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.

2. Describe Meno's appearance and attitude when he meets Socrates.

3. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.

4. In Socrates' republic, judges must__________.

5. What analogies does Socrates employ to refute Thrasymachus' position on justice?

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