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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What conclusion does Socrates draw from his argument concerning the goal of a philosopher?
(a) Philosophers should not resent death.
(b) Philosophers should not talk out of place.
(c) Philosophers should create a school of their own.
(d) Philosophers should leave Athens and never come back.

2. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?
(a) The body and the soul.
(b) The men and the women.
(c) Family and business.
(d) The grain from the hay.

3. Who claimed to have been with Socrates when he died at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Giton.

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

5. Who will Socrates say he will join in death?
(a) Good men.
(b) His friends that passed.
(c) The gods.
(d) His students.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who agrees with Cebes' views on death according to 62d?

4. According to the account of his death, how did Socrates lived his life?

5. What does the soul reason best without according to Socrates?

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