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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?
(a) Death.
(b) Cleansing.
(c) Renunciation.
(d) Love.

3. What does Socrates say a bravery should not be a response to?
(a) Renunciation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Desperation.
(d) Love.

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

5. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?
(a) Greed.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Confusion of senses.
(d) Prison.

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

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

8. What does Socrates argue cannot be attained without escaping the body?
(a) Pure knowledge.
(b) Pure love.
(c) Pure angst.
(d) Pure respect.

9. Who will Socrates say he will join in death?
(a) His students.
(b) The gods.
(c) His friends that passed.
(d) Good men.

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

11. What argument does Cebes agree with at the start of 73a-81a?
(a) Dying is good.
(b) Souls of the dead exit.
(c) Philosophy is the savior of mankind.
(d) Hemlock is painless.

12. Why did Socrates decide to pursue the arts according to his conversation with Cebes?
(a) A dream told him to.
(b) He wasn't good at anything else.
(c) He was rejected from medical school.
(d) His mother told him to.

13. Why should Socrates resent dying according to Cebes?
(a) He still has too much to do.
(b) God protects his possessions.
(c) Dying does not bring fame.
(d) His wife and child need him.

14. Who does the philosopher want to be with according to Socrates?
(a) His students.
(b) Himself.
(c) His family.
(d) His friends.

15. What does the body do to the soul according to Socrates' argument in 66b-72e?
(a) It supersedes it.
(b) It contaminates it.
(c) It kills it.
(d) It supports it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates drink, according to Echecrates?

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

3. Who wants to hear Socrates' argument that the soul appears immortal?

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

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

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