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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 cannot be attained as long as the body and the soul are fused?
(a) Truth.
(b) Contemplation.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Nirvana.

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

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

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

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

6. How does the man recounting Socrates' death qualify it?
(a) Common.
(b) Painless.
(c) Astonishing.
(d) Quick.

7. Who does Socrates tell Cebes to relate his final writing to?
(a) Plato.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Evenus.
(d) His mother.

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

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

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

11. What does Socrates argue we can identify in 73a-81a?
(a) When philosophy is right.
(b) When we are ready to die.
(c) When two things are equal.
(d) When we are happy.

12. According to the account of his death, how did Socrates lived his life?
(a) With great respect for it.
(b) With the blessing of the gods.
(c) As dangerously as he could.
(d) Without any fear of tomorrow.

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

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

15. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?
(a) Living things.
(b) War.
(c) The afterlife.
(d) The sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. When can brave men face death according to Socrates?

2. What conclusion does Socrates draw from his argument concerning the goal of a philosopher?

3. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?

4. According to Socrates, what does the philosopher hate most?

5. Who claimed to have been with Socrates when he died at the start of "Phaedo"?

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