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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who had to be led away during Socrates' trial?
(a) Aeschines.
(b) Xanthippe.
(c) Antisthenes.
(d) Phaedo.

3. 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) A dream told him to.
(d) He was rejected from medical school.

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

5. Where was Socrates held prior to dying according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) In Sparta.
(b) At home.
(c) In jail.
(d) In a temple.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What might be an obstacle to acquiring knowledge according to Socrates?

4. Who does Socrates tell Cebes to relate his final writing to?

5. What did "the Eleven" tell Socrates according to the account?

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