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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. According to Socrates' opinion, what does the common man's simple mind cause him to mistake?
(a) Emotions for arguments.
(b) A ceasing of pain for pleasure.
(c) Examples for definitions.
(d) Reason for illogic.

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

3. Philosophers, according to Socrates' analogy, are which of the following?
(a) The parasite sitting in the beast's stomach, making it hungry.
(b) Men freed from the cave, seeing the shadow puppets for what they are.
(c) The farmers who cut the chickens' heads off.
(d) Wind making the willows flap.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates believes that the "just man" is _____________.

2. Which of the following ideas are not mentioned in Book VI?

3. What is one example that Socrates uses to suggest that the city has already turned against him?

4. How does Crito plan to aid Socrates?

5. Socrates believes that the Sophists________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the tyrannical man the most miserable, according to Socrates?

2. Why does Socrates think that aspiring philosophers should be instructed in dialectic only at the end of their educations?

3. Why are poets dangerous, according to Socrates?

4. How does Socrates argue that it is unlawful to break out of prison?

5. What does the cave metaphor mean?

6. Why does Socrates think philosophers make the best rulers?

7. How is the entire Apology an example of Socratic wisdom in practice?

8. Why does Socrates think it acceptable for the state to make philosophers rule if they are unwilling?

9. Why does Socrates say in Book VII that "philosophers don't want to rule"?

10. How can tyranny arise in a democratic state?

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