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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does fear and terror make men brave beside of?
(a) Senators.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Women.
(d) Warriors.

2. What should the philosopher avoid according to Socrates?
(a) Bodily passions.
(b) Politics.
(c) Women.
(d) Poison.

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

4. Who wasn't present at Socrates' death according to the account?
(a) Plato.
(b) Menexenus.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Critobulus.

5. According to Socrates, what equal never is?
(a) Trees.
(b) Unequal.
(c) Seen by threes.
(d) Small.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates drink, according to Echecrates?

2. Who recounts Socrates' death at the start of "Phaedo"?

3. Who are "the Eleven" according to Phaedo?

4. Why did Socrates decide to pursue the arts according to his conversation with Cebes?

5. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?

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