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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 107c - 115e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) The truth behind harmony.
(b) Consider matters through his soul alone.
(c) The value of a senator's soul.
(d) How the soul escapes the body.

2. Why did Socrates decide to pursue the arts according to his conversation with Cebes?
(a) He wasn't good at anything else.
(b) His mother told him to.
(c) He was rejected from medical school.
(d) A dream told him to.

3. What does Socrates argue the good soul is?
(a) Harmonized.
(b) Fearful.
(c) A philosopher's.
(d) Contemplative.

4. How does the man recounting Socrates' death qualify it?
(a) Quick.
(b) Painless.
(c) Astonishing.
(d) Common.

5. What does Socrates say cannot be attained as long as the body and the soul are fused?
(a) Truth.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Nirvana.
(d) Contemplation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue that we must have learned what we know recollect imply?

2. What did the one recounting the event of Socrates' death feel for him?

3. Who is inferior to the humans according to Socrates?

4. What happens according to Socrates when one examine things by the body?

5. What did Socrates decide he should write before his death?

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