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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Socrates firmly believes that poets ______________.
(a) Should be allowed to recite in the streets.
(b) Know exactly of what they are speaking.
(c) Should be banished from his city.
(d) Are correct about the afterlife.

3. Socrates believes that the Sophists________________.
(a) Have values worth learning from.
(b) Are philosophers themselves.
(c) Are evil imitators posing as philosophers.
(d) Should be exiled on grounds of impiety.

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

5. Why is Phaedo important?
(a) Because Socrates willed Phaedo everything that Socrates owned.
(b) Because he tried to break Socrates out of prison.
(c) Because he personally executed Socrates.
(d) Because he was present at Socrates execution and spoke with Socrates before he died.

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

7. How does Socrates regard an oligarchy?
(a) Socrates asserts that an oligarchy is worse than a democracy.
(b) Socrates claims that oligarchy is dangerous because it often leads to an impoverished public.
(c) Socrates thinks that class divisions are crucial to the success of an oligarchy.
(d) Socrates thinks that oligarchy is the best form of government in all cases.

8. What is Crito's relationship to Socrates?
(a) Crito is a jail guard.
(b) Crito is a Sophist, one of Socrates' enemies.
(c) Crito is a wealthy disciple of Socrates.
(d) Crito is Socrates' cousin

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

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

11. According to Socrates, to what does a true philosopher owe his life?
(a) His parents.
(b) The state.
(c) The people.
(d) His God.

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

13. In the then-present Greece, Socrates believes that __________.
(a) The rise of a philosopher-king, though desirable, is an impossible scenario.
(b) Sophists fill the role of philosophers.
(c) There are very few true philosophers.
(d) There are very many true philosophers.

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

15. In Book VII Socrates weaves an analogy suggesting that the common man is like________.
(a) A prisoner in a cave looking at shadow puppets and thinking it's real life.
(b) A willow flapping in the wind.
(c) A chicken in a coop, about to be slaughtered.
(d) A starving beast, desperate for food.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates explains that the common man sees the philosopher as useless because_________.

2. Philosophers, according to Socrates' analogy, are which of the following?

3. The evil of the soul, explained in Book X by Socrates, is ___________.

4. According to Socrates' radical math, the tyrant's life is 729 times________.

5. What is timocracy?

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