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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 73a - 81a.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who wasn't present at Socrates' death according to the account?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Critobulus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Menexenus.

3. Who was present for Socrates' death according to the men at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) The Athenian senate.
(b) Only the judge and executor.
(c) A good many of Socrates' enemies.
(d) A good many of Socrates' friends.

4. What does Simmias think of Cebes arguments about the man that answers correctly?
(a) He want more time to think about them.
(b) He is not satisfied.
(c) He is convinced.
(d) He wants to claim them as his own.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?

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

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

4. What must exist for two things to be the same according to Socrates?

5. What argument does Cebes agree with at the start of 73a-81a?

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