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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is clearer to the soul than the body according to Socrates?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Women.
(c) Reality.
(d) Fantasm.

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

4. Who does Socrates tell Cebes to relate his final writing to?
(a) His mother.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Plato.
(d) Evenus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who doesn't deserve to live according to the masses?

2. What does Socrates say a bravery should not be a response to?

3. According to Socrates, what equal never is?

4. What does the body do to the soul according to Socrates' argument in 66b-72e?

5. What does Simmias think of Cebes arguments about the man that answers correctly?

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