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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 first happen to those who die according to Socrates?
(a) They must be judged.
(b) They must go through purgatory.
(c) They must pay to pass in the other world.
(d) They must renounce the body.

2. What does Socrates remarks of Cebes and Simmias in 115a-118a?
(a) They will fall into despair.
(b) They are not from Athens.
(c) They will repudiate his teachings.
(d) They will live another day.

3. Who is inferior to the humans according to Socrates?
(a) The thing living in the heavens.
(b) The thing living in volcanoes.
(c) The things living under the ocean.
(d) The thing dwelling in caves.

4. What does Socrates says of his ability with the area he is looking into, in order to answer Cebes' question?
(a) He has little ability in it.
(b) He has intimate knowledge of it.
(c) It is a useless area for a philosopher.
(d) He never practiced it.

5. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) The value of a senator's soul.
(b) The truth behind harmony.
(c) Consider matters through his soul alone.
(d) How the soul escapes the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Socrates argue are good masters?

2. What doesn't Socrates have time for in 107c-115e?

3. What does Cebes argue a man can always answer correctly?

4. What does the soul reason best without according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?

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