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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 say of the relationship between the soul and body?
(a) The body and the soul are two different beings.
(b) The body controls the soul.
(c) The soul controls the body.
(d) Gods control the soul.

2. When can brave men face death according to Socrates?
(a) When they take on philosophy.
(b) When they leave Athens.
(c) When they are wonded in battle.
(d) When they fear greater evil.

3. What might be an obstacle to acquiring knowledge according to Socrates?
(a) Bad teachers.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Women.
(d) The body.

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

5. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?
(a) Why things came to be and perished.
(b) Why things live so long.
(c) Why the soul is harmony.
(d) Why the soul is blind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will the imprisonment of the body and ignorance be revealed to according to Socrates?

2. What did the people present with Socrates think of his argument according to Phaedo?

3. How do things appear when perceived by the senses according to Socrates?

4. What does the start of 88c-95a say about what Phaedo and others thought of Socrates' arguments?

5. What ways do things exist according to Socrates?

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