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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the destination of the soul determined by according to Socrates?
(a) The gods.
(b) How much was donated to the poor.
(c) The astrological sign.
(d) The earthly behavior.

2. 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.

3. What does Socrates say of death in 107c-115e?
(a) It is quick and painless.
(b) It does not escape everything.
(c) It is final.
(d) It just the start of a new journey.

4. Who is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?
(a) Himself.
(b) Simmias.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Cebes.

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

6. What does Socrates think earth balanced in the middle of?
(a) Ether.
(b) Water.
(c) The heavens.
(d) A homogeneous substance.

7. What are the heavens according to Socrates?
(a) The water.
(b) Fire.
(c) The ground.
(d) The air.

8. What was Socrates aware of according to Phaedo?
(a) That he needed to leave Athens.
(b) The need for more arguments.
(c) That Phaedo didn't trust him.
(d) That it was time to die.

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

10. According to Socrates, what must genuine lovers of learning become?
(a) Moderate and brave.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Brave in face of fear.
(d) Lovers of the body.

11. What we must do for all time according to Socrates at the start of 107c-115e?
(a) Prepare for death.
(b) Worship the gods.
(c) Take care of our soul.
(d) Be truthful.

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

13. What is virtue according to Socrates?
(a) Soul.
(b) Unnecessary to die.
(c) A necessity to the body.
(d) Harmony.

14. What souls hover over the earth according to Socrates?
(a) Souls that are looking over loved ones.
(b) Recently dead souls.
(c) Those attached to the body.
(d) Those not educated enough.

15. What question does Cebes ask Socrates concerning the soul's long existence?
(a) Why think it can die?
(b) Why think it is immortal?
(c) Why think it can live without the body?
(d) Why think it controls the body?

Short Answer Questions

1. What could a glutton return as according to Socrates?

2. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?

3. What does philosophy surrender to from time to time?

4. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?

5. Where does Socrates think the people of earth dwell?

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