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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 81b - 88b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of men resent dying according to Cebes?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Pious.
(c) Wise.
(d) Fearless.

2. According to Socrates, what do the ones who love wisdom desire?
(a) Ignore wisdom until they die.
(b) Learn wisdom from Socrates.
(c) Be where true wisdom is.
(d) Marry and have children to test them.

3. Why should Socrates resent dying according to Cebes?
(a) He still has too much to do.
(b) Dying does not bring fame.
(c) God protects his possessions.
(d) His wife and child need him.

4. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?
(a) The men and the women.
(b) Family and business.
(c) The body and the soul.
(d) The grain from the hay.

5. What does Simmias think of Cebes arguments about the man that answers correctly?
(a) He want more time to think about them.
(b) He is not satisfied.
(c) He is convinced.
(d) He wants to claim them as his own.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?

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

3. Who will the imprisonment of the body and ignorance be revealed to according to Socrates?

4. What does Cebes argue a man can always answer correctly?

5. What does the body do according to Socrates?

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