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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Socrates argue is not possible without wisdom?
(a) Fear.
(b) Love.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Virtue.

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

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

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

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

9. In "Phaedo", what is the abstract fact about the world that makes it true that two sticks are of the same type?
(a) Equal.
(b) Almost the same.
(c) Similar.
(d) Identical.

10. What does Socrates argue cannot come from the present life in 73a-81a?
(a) Our memories.
(b) Our loved ones.
(c) Inequality.
(d) Our knowledge of equals.

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

12. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Love.
(c) The body.
(d) His family.

13. What can be achieved in death that could not be achieved in life according to Socrates?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Peace.
(c) Love.
(d) Quiet.

14. What does the theory Socrates say some people believe in argue happens to the soul after death?
(a) They go to the afterworld.
(b) They die.
(c) Their fate depends on the gods.
(d) They are reincarnated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simmias think of Cebes arguments about the man that answers correctly?

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

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

4. What question does Socrates ask Simmias in 62d-66a?

5. What did Socrates drink, according to Echecrates?

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