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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?
(a) Love.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) His family.
(d) The body.

2. What does Socrates say the body is responsible for?
(a) Love and respect.
(b) Angst and ignorance.
(c) War and discord.
(d) Pleasure and envy.

3. What could a glutton return as according to Socrates?
(a) A horse.
(b) A fish.
(c) A donkey.
(d) A monkey.

4. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) The value of a senator's soul.
(b) Consider matters through his soul alone.
(c) The truth behind harmony.
(d) How the soul escapes the body.

5. Why are the souls wandering the earth according to Socrates?
(a) Being perfect.
(b) Being infidel.
(c) Poor upbringing.
(d) Deceiving people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?

2. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?

3. What does Socrates say would be harmed if he thinks about empirical causes further?

4. Why is the soul in a poor state after it leaves the body according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates think of the cause of things?

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