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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doesn't Socrates have time for in 107c-115e?
(a) Defend his beliefs.
(b) Tell another story.
(c) Eat with his friends.
(d) Explain why he is going to die.

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

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

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

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

6. What did Phaedo and Echecrates want from Socrates in 88c-95a?
(a) More arguments that the soul survives the body.
(b) That he changes topic.
(c) That he tries a new poison.
(d) That he does not kill himself.

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

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

9. Where do the ones that lived an average life go after death according to Socrates?
(a) Oceanus.
(b) Pyriphlegethon.
(c) Cocytus.
(d) Acheron.

10. How does Socrates try to uncover causes?
(a) The gods.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) His own method.
(d) The scientific method.

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates feel when he said that the one teaching about the "Mind" was not applying his own teachings?

2. What does Socrates say would be harmed if he thinks about empirical causes further?

3. Who is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?

4. What does Socrates think about the path to Hades and back?

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

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