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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say most people are ready to do when their loved ones die?
(a) Go to the underworld.
(b) Learn philosophy.
(c) Die.
(d) Move on.

2. What does the soul reason best without according to Socrates?
(a) Help.
(b) Luck.
(c) The brain.
(d) Senses.

3. What does Simmias think of Cebes arguments about the man that answers correctly?
(a) He is convinced.
(b) He is not satisfied.
(c) He want more time to think about them.
(d) He wants to claim them as his own.

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

5. Who doesn't deserve to live according to the masses?
(a) The senate members.
(b) Those who follow Socrates.
(c) Those who take little pleasure in the body.
(d) The Spartans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?

2. What is Socrates wondering about the state of the soul when it leaves the body at the start of 81b-88b?

3. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?

4. What is better than divine doctrine concerning the next life according to Simmias?

5. What did Socrates decide he should write before his death?

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