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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What question does Socrates ask Simmias in 62d-66a?
(a) If he believes in death.
(b) If he can take care of his wife.
(c) If he believes in god.
(d) If he can counter his previous argument.

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

3. What is the only way to truly achieve virtue according to Socrates?
(a) Death.
(b) Reflection.
(c) Wisdom.
(d) Fear.

4. Where was Socrates held prior to dying according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) In Sparta.
(b) In jail.
(c) In a temple.
(d) At home.

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

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

7. 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.

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

9. Who are "the Eleven" according to Phaedo?
(a) The Senate palace guards.
(b) The police commissioners of Athens.
(c) Socrates' best students.
(d) Socrates' best friend.

10. What should a man be concerned about according to Socrates?
(a) His family.
(b) His riches.
(c) His political power.
(d) The state of his soul.

11. Who recounts Socrates' death at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Menexenus.
(b) Antisthenes.
(c) Cebes.
(d) Phaedo.

12. Who owns men according to 62c?
(a) Women.
(b) The court system.
(c) The country.
(d) The gods.

13. According to Socrates, what do the ones who love wisdom desire?
(a) Learn wisdom from Socrates.
(b) Marry and have children to test them.
(c) Be where true wisdom is.
(d) Ignore wisdom until they die.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue philosophy would allow a man to face with a happy face?

2. What does the body do to the soul according to Socrates' argument in 66b-72e?

3. In "Phaedo", what is the abstract fact about the world that makes it true that two sticks are of the same type?

4. Why are moderates amongst the masses also moderate out of fear according to Socrates?

5. What does Cebes argue is the logical conclusion of a man always giving the right answer?

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