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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ways do things exist according to Socrates?
(a) Small and large.
(b) Wet and dry.
(c) Visible and invisible.
(d) Spicy and bland

2. What did Socrates decide he should write before his death?
(a) A letter to his students.
(b) A plea for his life.
(c) A novel.
(d) Poetry.

3. What does fear and terror make men brave beside of?
(a) Senators.
(b) Warriors.
(c) Women.
(d) Philosopher.

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

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

6. What does Socrates argue philosophy would allow a man to face with a happy face?
(a) Writing.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Death.
(d) War.

7. Why was Socrates held prior to dying, according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) A religious ceremony.
(b) A battle with Sparta.
(c) A senate meeting.
(d) A voting day.

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

9. Who had to be led away during Socrates' trial?
(a) Aeschines.
(b) Antisthenes.
(c) Xanthippe.
(d) Phaedo.

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

11. What does Socrates think is the highest form of art according to his conversation with Cebes?
(a) Painting.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sculpting.

12. What condition does Cebes put forth for Socrates' conclusion to be valid?
(a) Socrates needs to be happy to die.
(b) One cannot commit suicide.
(c) The gods allow you to die properly.
(d) The soul lives after death.

13. What does Socrates argue learning is?
(a) Hard.
(b) For men only.
(c) Recollection.
(d) Easy.

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

15. What is recollection produced by according to Socrates?
(a) The brain.
(b) Similarity.
(c) Luck.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue small things come from?

2. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?

3. What is the only way to truly achieve virtue according to Socrates?

4. What does Socrates say cannot be attained as long as the body and the soul are fused?

5. How does the man recounting Socrates' death qualify it?

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