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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the goal of a philosopher according to Socrates?
(a) To speak the truth.
(b) To avoid confrontation with the law.
(c) To avoid dying.
(d) To practice for death and dying.

2. When can brave men face death according to Socrates?
(a) When they are wonded in battle.
(b) When they fear greater evil.
(c) When they take on philosophy.
(d) When they leave Athens.

3. What does Cebes argue a man can always answer correctly?
(a) If rewarded for the good answers.
(b) If asked the right way.
(c) If asked slowly.
(d) If given a hint.

4. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?
(a) We recollect them from a period before the body.
(b) It is incomplete.
(c) We cannot recollect them after 20 years of age.
(d) It is perfect.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes after the sun set?

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

3. What does Socrates argue cannot come from the present life in 73a-81a?

4. What do Socrates' friends do as he drinks the poison?

5. What should a man be concerned about according to Socrates?

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