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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?
(a) His wife and child.
(b) His first student.
(c) His sons.
(d) The chairman of the senate.

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

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

4. How do things appear when perceived by the senses according to Socrates?
(a) Imperfectly equal.
(b) Unequal.
(c) Equal.
(d) Partly equal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Socrates represent for Phaedo and the others present with him?

2. What type of men resent dying according to Cebes?

3. Who guides each man to the next station after death?

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

5. When does Socrates say his journey will begin?

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