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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Socrates decide he should write before his death?
(a) A plea for his life.
(b) Poetry.
(c) A letter to his students.
(d) A novel.

2. What is recollection produced by according to Socrates?
(a) Luck.
(b) Similarity.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) The brain.

3. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?
(a) It is incomplete.
(b) It is perfect.
(c) We cannot recollect them after 20 years of age.
(d) We recollect them from a period before the body.

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

5. What question does Socrates ask Simmias in 62d-66a?
(a) If he can counter his previous argument.
(b) If he can take care of his wife.
(c) If he believes in god.
(d) If he believes in death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who claimed to have been with Socrates when he died at the start of "Phaedo"?

2. Who owns men according to 62c?

3. What does Socrates argue learning is?

4. Who wants to hear Socrates' argument that the soul appears immortal?

5. What does Socrates argue small things come from?

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