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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is wisdom found in Socrates' ideal republic?
(a) In Socrates, and others like him.
(b) In the moral law.
(c) In those who rule and order it.
(d) In the slaves who labor in it.

2. In Republic: Book III, Socrates is first concerned with:
(a) Methods of practicing medicine.
(b) The end of the world.
(c) A citizens' revolt.
(d) The corruption of the youth.

3. 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.

4. Who is Eryximachus?
(a) A poet who argues that men and woman were once fused beings.
(b) The last speaker and surprise guest at the symposium.
(c) A doctor who argues that love is like a medicine curing life's ailments.
(d) A philosopher who attacks Pausanias' postion.

5. What are "the three"?
(a) The constitution of the city's government.
(b) Religious temples in Socrates' ideal republic.
(c) The members of the dialogue.
(d) The diagram that Socrates uses to prove the soul is immortal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates assert about his views of the ideal state?

2. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?

3. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?

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

5. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is justice, according to Socrates?

2. What is the best way, according to Socrates, that people not be given false impressions about the gods?

3. How does Socrates plan to prevent the rulers from becoming tyrants?

4. Why is Meno's definition of virtue unsatisfactory for Socrates?

5. How does Socrates distinguish knowledge known through art from knowledge known through inspiration?

6. How does Socrates convince his interlocutors that a woman can do any job that a man can?

7. What is the purpose of Alcibiades late-night intrusion into the Symposium? What does he talk about?

8. Does Thrasymachus like Socrates? Why or why not?

9. What is the crucial difference, according to Socrates, between the common man and the philosopher?

10. Why aren't the soldiers in Socrates' republic well compensated?

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