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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. How does Socrates refute Polemarchus' definition of justice?
(a) Socrates reasons that it is impossible to determine what is fair in every situation.
(b) Socrates asserts that doing evil, even to an evil man, makes the doer unjust.
(c) Socrates shows Polemarchus that stealing from the rich is unjust.
(d) Socrates shows Polemarchus that every man is intrinsically free, regardless of the law.

2. How does Polemarchus define justice?
(a) Being fair in all contexts.
(b) Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
(c) Allowing each man to live his life freely.
(d) Doing good to one's friends and evil to one's enemies.

3. At whose house does the Symposium take place?
(a) Alcidbides.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Phaedrus.

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

5. According to Socrates, where would the republic's leaders live?
(a) Among the citizens.
(b) In the Academy.
(c) In a palace in the country's largest city.
(d) Separately from the citizens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Socrates' ideal city, poets and soothsayers:

2. According to Socrates, what are the two ways of training the soul?

3. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

4. When Meno arrives in Athens, who is accompanying him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the story of the Symposium framed? How does this relate to the cultural values of the Greeks?

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

3. How does Socrates use metaphors to explain Ion's inspiration? How does this relate to the practice of art or philosophy?

4. Does Socrates believe that his theoretical republic is a realistic political plan for a city?

5. What does Diotima teach Socrates about love? How does this compare to Aristophanes' view?

6. What does Glaucon argue for?

7. Explain Plato's theory of knowledge as recollection.

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

9. What is justice, according to Socrates?

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

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