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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 66b - 72e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?
(a) Love.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) The body.
(d) His family.

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

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

4. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?
(a) The chairman of the senate.
(b) His first student.
(c) His sons.
(d) His wife and child.

5. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?
(a) Holding his wife's hand.
(b) Crying.
(c) Without fear.
(d) In pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say the body is responsible for?

2. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?

3. Who owns men according to 62c?

4. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?

5. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?

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