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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 88c - 95a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?
(a) Food, drink and sex.
(b) Food, drink and political power.
(c) Being generous, loved and respected.
(d) Power, sex and influence.

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

3. To whom do the souls that wander the earth belong according to Socrates?
(a) To women.
(b) To politicians.
(c) To inferior men.
(d) To good men.

4. What does Socrates say most people are ready to do when their loved ones die?
(a) Learn philosophy.
(b) Go to the underworld.
(c) Move on.
(d) Die.

5. What does Socrates argue cannot be attained without escaping the body?
(a) Pure angst.
(b) Pure respect.
(c) Pure knowledge.
(d) Pure love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?

2. What did Socrates decide he should write before his death?

3. Who had to be led away during Socrates' trial?

4. Who will the imprisonment of the body and ignorance be revealed to according to Socrates?

5. What did Socrates drink, according to Echecrates?

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