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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?
(a) Why the soul is harmony.
(b) Why things came to be and perished.
(c) Why the soul is blind.
(d) Why things live so long.

2. How does Socrates try to uncover causes?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) His own method.
(c) The gods.
(d) The scientific method.

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

4. What did Socrates feel when he said that the one teaching about the "Mind" was not applying his own teachings?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Angry.
(c) Happy.
(d) Surprised.

5. Who is impressed by Socrates' arguments at the start of 95b-107b?
(a) Simmias.
(b) Echecrates.
(c) Cebes.
(d) Phaedo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What means does Socrates say allows beautiful things to be called beautiful?

2. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?

3. To whom do the souls that wander the earth belong according to Socrates?

4. What question does Cebes ask Socrates concerning the soul's long existence?

5. What is weaker than the lyre according to Socrates?

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