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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the beginning of Book IV, Adeimantus ask Socrates__________________.
(a) Where Socrates plans to get resources to build his city.
(b) When Socrates thinks it feasible for his city to exist.
(c) Why the city's soldiers should be deprived of material happiness.
(d) Why Socrates adopts such a strange view of medicine.

6. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
(a) The natural animal kingdom.
(b) Collective consciousness.
(c) Justice personified.
(d) The individual soul.

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

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

9. When Meno arrives in Athens, who is accompanying him?
(a) A small militia unit.
(b) A large group of slaves.
(c) His wife.
(d) Nobody, he is alone.

10. 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's wife.
(b) Meno.
(c) The slave boy.
(d) Socrates.

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

12. From which poet does Polemarchus derive his definition of justice?
(a) Homer.
(b) Pindar.
(c) Simonides.
(d) Aristophenes.

13. Who gives the last formal speech at the symposium?
(a) Agathon.
(b) Appolodorus.
(c) Pausanias.
(d) Socrates.

14. One virtue that Socrates constantly refers to in his reasoning throughout Book III is_____________.
(a) Courage.
(b) Balance.
(c) Will.
(d) Originality.

15. According to Socrates, the goal of his ideal city is__________________.
(a) To find perfect knowledge.
(b) To conquer the world.
(c) To make a well-organized, perfect society.
(d) To ensure the happiness of a particular class.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?

2. According to Socrates, what are the three parts of the soul?

3. What does Cephalus say to Socrates about old age?

4. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?

5. Where is wisdom found in Socrates' ideal republic?

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