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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Cebes argue is the logical conclusion of a man always giving the right answer?
(a) The man has great knowledge.
(b) The questions are easy.
(c) The knowledge is innate.
(d) He is lucky.

2. According to Socrates, what equal never is?
(a) Unequal.
(b) Trees.
(c) Small.
(d) Seen by threes.

3. Who does the account of Socrates' death say were present beside Socrates' friends?
(a) Members of the Senate.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) The undertaker.
(d) Some strangers.

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

5. Who was present for Socrates' death according to the men at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Only the judge and executor.
(b) The Athenian senate.
(c) A good many of Socrates' enemies.
(d) A good many of Socrates' friends.

6. What does Socrates say the body is responsible for?
(a) War and discord.
(b) Pleasure and envy.
(c) Angst and ignorance.
(d) Love and respect.

7. What can be compared by using reference to knowledge of the perfect form?
(a) Gods.
(b) Men.
(c) Partly equal things.
(d) Unequal things.

8. What does Simmias tell Socrates about the ideas of the Just, the Beautiful and the Good?
(a) Only children can follow them.
(b) He never saw them.
(c) They are for women.
(d) He applies them every day.

9. What might be an obstacle to acquiring knowledge according to Socrates?
(a) Bad teachers.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Women.
(d) The body.

10. What did Socrates drink, according to Echecrates?
(a) Tea.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Water.
(d) Hemlock.

11. What does Socrates argue that we must have learned what we know recollect imply?
(a) Souls preexist our bodies.
(b) No need to learn anything now.
(c) Recollecting past memories can be done with hypnotism.
(d) Teaching philosophy is not pointless.

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

13. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?
(a) Food, drink and sex.
(b) Power, sex and influence.
(c) Food, drink and political power.
(d) Being generous, loved and respected.

14. According to Socrates, what does the philosopher hate most?
(a) The body.
(b) His brain.
(c) His senses.
(d) Other philosophers.

15. Who agrees with Cebes' views on death according to 62d?
(a) Echecrates.
(b) Simmias.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue learning is?

2. Who does the philosopher want to be with according to Socrates?

3. Who will Socrates say he will join in death?

4. Who wasn't present at Socrates' death according to the account?

5. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?

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