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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will the imprisonment of the body and ignorance be revealed to according to Socrates?
(a) Lovers of truth.
(b) Lovers of ignorance.
(c) Lovers of learning.
(d) Lovers of the body.

2. What does Socrates argue the good soul is?
(a) A philosopher's.
(b) Contemplative.
(c) Harmonized.
(d) Fearful.

3. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Anaxagoras.
(c) Plato.
(d) Echecrates.

4. Who is impressed by Socrates' arguments at the start of 95b-107b?
(a) Simmias.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Echecrates.

5. To whom do the souls that wander the earth belong according to Socrates?
(a) To women.
(b) To inferior men.
(c) To good men.
(d) To politicians.

6. What does Socrates say should not make one hate argument?
(a) The ease.
(b) The rebuttal.
(c) Being wrong.
(d) The difficulty.

7. What could a glutton return as according to Socrates?
(a) A donkey.
(b) A fish.
(c) A horse.
(d) A monkey.

8. How big does Socrates think earth is?
(a) About a thousand miles.
(b) Small.
(c) The size of the universe.
(d) Quite large.

9. What does philosophy surrender to from time to time?
(a) To passion.
(b) To contemplation.
(c) To the body.
(d) To fear.

10. What does Socrates think of desires?
(a) They are good for the body.
(b) They are ignored by the philosopher.
(c) They should not be given to women.
(d) They are a trap.

11. Where does Socrates think the people of earth dwell?
(a) In his caves.
(b) On its surface.
(c) In the hollows of the earth.
(d) In its oceans.

12. What means does Socrates say allows beautiful things to be called beautiful?
(a) The imagination.
(b) The reality.
(c) The soul.
(d) The Beautiful.

13. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?
(a) He becomes blind to them.
(b) They are clearer than ever.
(c) They are proving to be wrong.
(d) Most of them are false.

14. What must first happen to those who die according to Socrates?
(a) They must be judged.
(b) They must pay to pass in the other world.
(c) They must go through purgatory.
(d) They must renounce the body.

15. What is Socrates starting to discuss after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) Consequences.
(b) Himself.
(c) Effects.
(d) Formal causes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What question does Cebes ask Socrates concerning the soul's long existence?

2. How does Socrates try to uncover causes?

3. What does Socrates say of the relationship between the soul and body?

4. What position does Simmias accept concerning the soul?

5. What does Socrates argue the soul lacks?

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