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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates believes that unjust men_________.
(a) Will not necessarily be punished in death.
(b) Will be rewarded by the unjust gods.
(c) Will be punished in death.
(d) Don't deserve death and should have to live forever.

2. What is an aristocracy?
(a) Rule by the millitary.
(b) Rule by poor.
(c) Rule by a family.
(d) Rule by the elite.

3. Who said, "the unexamined life is not worth living"?
(a) Meletus.
(b) An unnamed member of the Athenian Council.
(c) Cherephon.
(d) Socrates.

4. Where does Crito take place?
(a) A jail.
(b) The marketplace at Athens.
(c) Agathon's house.
(d) A temple.

5. How does Socrates regard a timocracy?
(a) Socrates thinks that timocracy is the best form of government in all cases.
(b) Socrates thinks that timocracy is the worst form of government.
(c) Socrates wonders about the possibility of military rule.
(d) Socrates claims that honor and passion of a military leader, while not unjust, are imperfect qualities that you don't want in a leader.

6. Adeimantus interrupts Socrates in the beginning of Book VI to ask him ____________.
(a) Whether philosophy is an activity or a profession.
(b) When students get to become full-fledged philosophers.
(c) Why philosophers are either useless or evil.
(d) Why he wants philosophers to rule the city.

7. What assertion is made by Socrates when he responds to Adeimantus' point?
(a) Philosophy is neither an activity nor a profession, but a calling.
(b) Philosophers make the best rulers.
(c) Students become philosophers when they stop asking such questions.
(d) True philosophers are more concerned with absolute truth to the opinion of the masses, and only Sophists are evil.

8. In his discussion of education, Socrates says that arithmetic, geometry, and physics are worthwhile pursuits for which two groups of people?
(a) Philosophers and military generals.
(b) Philosophers and merchants.
(c) Craftsmen and politicians.
(d) Traders and servants.

9. The evil of the soul, explained in Book X by Socrates, is ___________.
(a) Dishonesty.
(b) Treason.
(c) Injustice.
(d) Fire.

10. As a consequence of an elevated state of mind, Socrates explains that philosophers often have trouble_________.
(a) Being professional.
(b) Focusing on complicated issues.
(c) Apprehending absolute truths.
(d) With sensible and mundane activities.

11. Socrates concludes Book X with a theory of _______________.
(a) Reverse psychology.
(b) Reincarnation of souls.
(c) Metaphysical phenomenology.
(d) Revolution for the government.

12. Which of the following ideas are not mentioned in Book VI?
(a) The intellectual life of the philosopher is very rigorous.
(b) Learning is a process of recalling past knowledge.
(c) Hypotheses are helpful, but only when you cannot apprehend an idea without an example.
(d) Philosophers can do good and evil.

13. What is timocracy?
(a) Rule by the military.
(b) Rule by the poor.
(c) Rule by the rich.
(d) Rule by the elite.

14. In Book IX, the democratic man is described by Socrates as one who_________.
(a) Is just as evil as the tyrannical man.
(b) Cares only for himself.
(c) Will not fulfill his perverse desires because he has a conscience.
(d) Is the most virtuous type of person.

15. In Book IX, what is the common man's deepest pleasure?
(a) Material gain.
(b) Sex.
(c) Truth.
(d) Philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates believes that a philosopher is best rewarded in death if ________.

2. Socrates believes that the Sophists________________.

3. Socrates firmly believes that poetry _____________.

4. Who said the following: "Whether in battle or in a court of law, or in any other place, he must do what his city and his country order him; or he must change their view of what is just"?

5. What is one of the reasons that Crito offers for coming to visit Socrates?

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