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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Crito plan to aid Socrates?
(a) By using his wealth and influence, Crito plans to get Socrates out of prison.
(b) Formally appeal Socrates' case to a superior court.
(c) Crito doesn't want to help Socrates.
(d) Crito wants to secretly bring Socrates food.

2. What is Socrates' view on the nature of death, particularly his own?
(a) He thinks death a bad thing, but looks forward to it as a means of getting out of prison.
(b) He does not believe in an afterlife.
(c) He hopes for perfect knowledge, but really claims to have no idea what will happen.
(d) He thinks death is a good thing, though one should not look forward to it.

3. What does Crito want Socrates to do?
(a) Stop corrupting his son and the other young people in Greece.
(b) Break out of prison and leave Athens.
(c) Drink hemlock.
(d) Appeal the conviction entered against Socrates.

4. From Socrates' point of view, the philosopher is __________ than the tyrant.
(a) Vested with less power.
(b) Immensely more happy.
(c) Worse off.
(d) More rewarded.

5. The Athenian jury finds Socrates_________.
(a) Innocent and acquits him of all charges.
(b) Innocent on some charges but guilty on others.
(c) Guilty and sentences him to death.
(d) Guilty and sentences him to exile.

6. Socrates believes that a philosopher is best rewarded in death if ________.
(a) His soul is laid to rest, while his body continues to survive.
(b) His soul continues to survive, while his body is laid to rest.
(c) He is brought back to life.
(d) He becomes a god.

7. When he first address the jury, Socrates_________.
(a) Says he will not fight the slander of others with slander.
(b) Excuses himself for speaking in common language familiar to him.
(c) Vehemently denies the accusations against him.
(d) Asks a lot of questions.

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

9. What is an oligarchy?
(a) Rule by the military.
(b) Rule by the rich.
(c) Rule by the elite.
(d) Rule by the poor.

10. According to Socrates, how should a good philosopher rule?
(a) Rule, but willingly so.
(b) Not associate with politics.
(c) Never rule because absolute power corrupts absolutely.
(d) Rule, but unwillingly so.

11. Socrates believes that the "just man" is _____________.
(a) A friend of the gods and will be rewarded for being so.
(b) An enemy to unjust gods.
(c) Bound only to enjoy his goodness while he is alive.
(d) An enemy to himself.

12. As a consequence of misology, or a hatred of logic/reasoning, Socrates explains how the common man has trouble_________.
(a) Speaking literally.
(b) Serving his state.
(c) Apprehending simple concepts.
(d) Apprehending absolute truths.

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

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

15. According to Socrates' points in Book IV, the soul of a philosopher_____________________.
(a) Does not concern Socrates.
(b) Is better than the soul of a common man.
(c) Is easily persuadable.
(d) Can be used for good and evil alike.

Short Answer Questions

1. What must the philosopher, according to Socrates in Book VI, employ in order to attain knowledge of "absolute good"?

2. In Book IX, how does Socrates describe a tyrant?

3. Wise souls, Socrates asserts, will always choose paths of_________.

4. What is Crito's relationship to Socrates?

5. How does Socrates regard a timocracy?

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