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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 115a - 118a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must exist for two things to be the same according to Socrates?
(a) Someone to identify them.
(b) Equality of numbers.
(c) Equality of size.
(d) Equality the Form.

2. What are the heavens according to Socrates?
(a) The air.
(b) Fire.
(c) The ground.
(d) The water.

3. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?
(a) The body and the soul.
(b) The grain from the hay.
(c) Family and business.
(d) The men and the women.

4. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?
(a) Renunciation.
(b) Death.
(c) Love.
(d) Cleansing.

5. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?
(a) They are proving to be wrong.
(b) Most of them are false.
(c) He becomes blind to them.
(d) They are clearer than ever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Cebes ask Socrates concerning the soul's long existence?

2. What position does Simmias accept concerning the soul?

3. What does Socrates think is the highest form of art according to his conversation with Cebes?

4. Who does Socrates send to get the poison?

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

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