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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 of the relationship between the soul and body?
(a) The soul controls the body.
(b) The body controls the soul.
(c) Gods control the soul.
(d) The body and the soul are two different beings.

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

3. What does the soul have when it leaves the body according to Socrates?
(a) Angst and envy.
(b) Education and envy.
(c) Needs and regrets.
(d) Education and upbringing.

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

5. What does Socrates say cannot contain a harmony?
(a) The body.
(b) A harmony.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) The soul.

6. What does Socrates think earth is?
(a) A cube supported by a turtle.
(b) A large tube holding the heavens.
(c) A flat circle.
(d) A sphere in the middle of the heavens.

7. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?
(a) They wait for a new body.
(b) They educate themselves.
(c) They are guided to heaven.
(d) A guide brings them back to earth.

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

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

10. What does Socrates say would be harmed if he thinks about empirical causes further?
(a) His harmony.
(b) His soul.
(c) His sense.
(d) His body.

11. What is Socrates wondering about the state of the soul when it leaves the body at the start of 81b-88b?
(a) It might die.
(b) It might be lost.
(c) It might be impure.
(d) It might not be knowledgeable.

12. Who guides each man to the next station after death?
(a) His guardian spirit.
(b) His dead family.
(c) His soul knows where to go.
(d) The gods.

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

14. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?
(a) Why the soul is harmony.
(b) Why things live so long.
(c) Why things came to be and perished.
(d) Why the soul is blind.

15. What group does Socrates say those who practice moderation would join?
(a) Horses.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Gods.
(d) Ants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is there no greater evil than according to Socrates?

2. How big does Socrates think earth is?

3. Who is inferior to the humans according to Socrates?

4. What did Phaedo and Echecrates want from Socrates in 88c-95a?

5. What position does Simmias accept concerning the soul?

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