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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 66b - 72e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simmias tell Socrates about the ideas of the Just, the Beautiful and the Good?
(a) He never saw them.
(b) He applies them every day.
(c) Only children can follow them.
(d) They are for women.

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

3. What condition does Cebes put forth for Socrates' conclusion to be valid?
(a) Socrates needs to be happy to die.
(b) The gods allow you to die properly.
(c) One cannot commit suicide.
(d) The soul lives after death.

4. According to Socrates, what does the philosopher hate most?
(a) Other philosophers.
(b) His senses.
(c) His brain.
(d) The body.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who are "the Eleven" according to Phaedo?

2. What did Socrates drink, according to Echecrates?

3. What did the one recounting the event of Socrates' death feel for him?

4. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?

5. How does course and moderation see death according to Socrates' argument?

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