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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?
(a) The will of men.
(b) Effects.
(c) Local causes.
(d) The gods.

3. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?
(a) They are guided to heaven.
(b) They educate themselves.
(c) A guide brings them back to earth.
(d) They wait for a new body.

4. Who is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?
(a) Himself.
(b) Simmias.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Cebes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the body do according to Socrates?

2. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?

3. What conclusion does Socrates deduce from his arguments in the first part of 66b-72e?

4. Who does Socrates tell Cebes to relate his final writing to?

5. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?

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