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

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

3. Who owns men according to 62c?
(a) The country.
(b) The court system.
(c) The gods.
(d) Women.

4. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?
(a) A guide brings them back to earth.
(b) They educate themselves.
(c) They wait for a new body.
(d) They are guided to heaven.

5. In "Phaedo", what is the abstract fact about the world that makes it true that two sticks are of the same type?
(a) Identical.
(b) Similar.
(c) Equal.
(d) Almost the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What conclusion does Socrates deduce from his arguments in the first part of 66b-72e?

2. Who wants to hear Socrates' argument that the soul appears immortal?

3. Why was Socrates held prior to dying, according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?

4. What could a glutton return as according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates think of desires?

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