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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 think of desires?
(a) They should not be given to women.
(b) They are good for the body.
(c) They are ignored by the philosopher.
(d) They are a trap.

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

3. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?
(a) Greed.
(b) Confusion of senses.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Prison.

4. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?
(a) The will of men.
(b) The gods.
(c) Effects.
(d) Local causes.

5. According to Socrates, what must genuine lovers of learning become?
(a) Moderate and brave.
(b) Brave in face of fear.
(c) Lovers of the body.
(d) Philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue is not possible without wisdom?

2. What groups can no one join if they have not practiced philosophy and do not leave this life pure?

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

4. What relation does Socrates see between Tallness and Shortness?

5. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?

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