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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 62d - 66a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?
(a) Food, drink and sex.
(b) Food, drink and political power.
(c) Being generous, loved and respected.
(d) Power, sex and influence.

2. Who doesn't deserve to live according to the masses?
(a) Those who follow Socrates.
(b) The Spartans.
(c) Those who take little pleasure in the body.
(d) The senate members.

3. Which two characters are talking at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Plato and Socrates.
(b) Phaedo and Plato.
(c) Socrates and Echecrates.
(d) Phaedo and Echecrates.

4. Why should Socrates resent dying according to Cebes?
(a) He still has too much to do.
(b) God protects his possessions.
(c) Dying does not bring fame.
(d) His wife and child need him.

5. What does the soul reason best without according to Socrates?
(a) Luck.
(b) The brain.
(c) Help.
(d) Senses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates think is the highest form of art according to his conversation with Cebes?

2. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?

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

4. Who had to be led away during Socrates' trial?

5. What was Socrates feeling according to the start of "Phaedo"?

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