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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 95b - 107b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?
(a) The sea.
(b) Living things.
(c) War.
(d) The afterlife.

2. What is weaker than the lyre according to Socrates?
(a) Harmony.
(b) Fear.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Hope.

3. What does Socrates say most people are ready to do when their loved ones die?
(a) Learn philosophy.
(b) Die.
(c) Move on.
(d) Go to the underworld.

4. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?
(a) Plato.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Echecrates.
(d) Anaxagoras.

5. What does Socrates say a bravery should not be a response to?
(a) Desperation.
(b) Love.
(c) Renunciation.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. What should the philosopher avoid according to Socrates?

2. When can brave men face death according to Socrates?

3. What is Socrates starting to discuss after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?

4. What does philosophy surrender to from time to time?

5. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?

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