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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 107c - 115e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates argue that we must have learned what we know recollect imply?
(a) Recollecting past memories can be done with hypnotism.
(b) No need to learn anything now.
(c) Souls preexist our bodies.
(d) Teaching philosophy is not pointless.

2. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?
(a) Why the soul is blind.
(b) Why the soul is harmony.
(c) Why things live so long.
(d) Why things came to be and perished.

3. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?
(a) Plato.
(b) Anaxagoras.
(c) Echecrates.
(d) Phaedo.

4. What does fear and terror make men brave beside of?
(a) Warriors.
(b) Women.
(c) Senators.
(d) Philosopher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Socrates held prior to dying, according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?

2. What did Socrates feel when he said that the one teaching about the "Mind" was not applying his own teachings?

3. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?

4. Who is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?

5. What does Socrates say cannot be attained as long as the body and the soul are fused?

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