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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which two characters are talking at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Plato and Socrates.
(b) Phaedo and Plato.
(c) Phaedo and Echecrates.
(d) Socrates and Echecrates.

2. In "Phaedo", what is the abstract fact about the world that makes it true that two sticks are of the same type?
(a) Identical.
(b) Almost the same.
(c) Equal.
(d) Similar.

3. What does Socrates argue cannot come from the present life in 73a-81a?
(a) Inequality.
(b) Our knowledge of equals.
(c) Our memories.
(d) Our loved ones.

4. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?
(a) His sons.
(b) His wife and child.
(c) The chairman of the senate.
(d) His first student.

5. According to the account of his death, how did Socrates lived his life?
(a) With great respect for it.
(b) Without any fear of tomorrow.
(c) As dangerously as he could.
(d) With the blessing of the gods.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Socrates argue that we must have learned what we know recollect imply?

4. What can be compared by using reference to knowledge of the perfect form?

5. What does Socrates argue cannot be attained without escaping the body?

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