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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who claimed to have been with Socrates when he died at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Giton.
(c) Plato.
(d) Cebes.

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

4. Who wants to hear Socrates' argument that the soul appears immortal?
(a) Simmias.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Echecrates.
(d) Cebes.

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

6. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?
(a) We recollect them from a period before the body.
(b) It is perfect.
(c) We cannot recollect them after 20 years of age.
(d) It is incomplete.

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

8. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?
(a) His wife and child.
(b) The chairman of the senate.
(c) His sons.
(d) His first student.

9. Who does the recount of Socrates' conversation with Cebes tell us was Socrates writing in honor of before his death?
(a) The god of the festival.
(b) His mother.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Apollo and Venus.

10. What does Socrates say the body is responsible for?
(a) War and discord.
(b) Pleasure and envy.
(c) Angst and ignorance.
(d) Love and respect.

11. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?
(a) Crying.
(b) Without fear.
(c) In pain.
(d) Holding his wife's hand.

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

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

14. What does Simmias think of Cebes arguments about the man that answers correctly?
(a) He is convinced.
(b) He want more time to think about them.
(c) He wants to claim them as his own.
(d) He is not satisfied.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When do we lose knowledge, according to Socrates?

2. What does Socrates say about philosophers at the start of 62d -66a?

3. Why should Socrates resent dying according to Cebes?

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

5. What can be achieved in death that could not be achieved in life according to Socrates?

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