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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.
(b) Justice as it relates to a small family.
(c) Glaucon's own virtue.
(d) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.

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

3. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?
(a) Hesoid's Theogeny.
(b) Various works by Pindar.
(c) Aristotle's Poetics.
(d) Heretical poetry by Shakespeare and Ben Johnson.

4. Why does Socrates discuss Asclepius' philosophy?
(a) His leadership is a good example of how not to lead.
(b) His leadership is well established.
(c) He has a practical approach of only treating patients whom he knows he can heal.
(d) He disagrees with Socrates about the ideal republic.

5. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(b) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(c) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
(d) Agathon's poetic license.

6. What is a symposium?
(a) An all- night drinking party where various elite Greeks discuss the meaning of love.
(b) An outdoor gathering of philosophers near a nobleman's residence.
(c) An ancient restaurant.
(d) A small club of Sophists.

7. Toward the end of Book IV Socrates weaves an analogy between________________.
(a) The individual and the city.
(b) The citizen and the king.
(c) Heaven and hell.
(d) Father and son.

8. At whose house does the Symposium take place?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Alcidbides.
(d) Socrates.

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

10. How does Dimotia characterize love?
(a) Beautiful and pure, like virtue or reason.
(b) Grounded and rational, like a mathematical equation.
(c) Curious and enigmatic, like the Gods.
(d) Crude and deceitful, like the desire for immortality.

11. Ultimately, Socrates concludes that justice is______________.
(a) Completely unknowable, but nevertheless necessary.
(b) A proper organization, balancing the various faculties of the soul.
(c) The power of the stronger.
(d) Completely unknowable and therefore obsolete.

12. By the end of Book IV Socrates has still not proved _______________.
(a) Justice manifests on earth.
(b) Courage comes from education and fear comes from ignorance.
(c) Laws affect the flow of life.
(d) Justice is preferable to injustice.

13. In Ion, Socrates compares Ion to which of the following?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Plato.
(c) Greek artists and sculptors.
(d) Religious prophets.

14. According to Socrates, what are the three parts of the soul?
(a) Thoughtfulness, mindfulness, and power.
(b) Goodness, badness, and curiosity.
(c) Hate, love, and desire.
(d) Rationality, spirit, and appetite.

15. According to Socrates, where would the republic's leaders live?
(a) In a palace in the country's largest city.
(b) In the Academy.
(c) Among the citizens.
(d) Separately from the citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.

2. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?

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

4. Whose side is Adeimantus on, at least in the beginning of the dialogue?

5. One virtue that Socrates constantly refers to in his reasoning throughout Book III is_____________.

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