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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did "the Eleven" tell Socrates according to the account?
(a) What his crimes are.
(b) How he would die.
(c) The names of his accusers.
(d) That he would be freed the next day.

2. What is the only way to truly achieve virtue according to Socrates?
(a) Reflection.
(b) Fear.
(c) Death.
(d) Wisdom.

3. What does Simmias tell Socrates about the ideas of the Just, the Beautiful and the Good?
(a) They are for women.
(b) Only children can follow them.
(c) He never saw them.
(d) He applies them every day.

4. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?
(a) The body.
(b) Feelings.
(c) The soul.
(d) Fear.

5. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?
(a) It is incomplete.
(b) It is perfect.
(c) We recollect them from a period before the body.
(d) We cannot recollect them after 20 years of age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is clearer to the soul than the body according to Socrates?

2. Which two characters are talking at the start of "Phaedo"?

3. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?

4. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?

5. Who does Socrates tell Cebes to relate his final writing to?

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