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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What position does Simmias accept concerning the soul?
(a) It is not necessarily composite.
(b) It is mortal.
(c) It cannot learn.
(d) It has several facets.

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

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

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

5. Who is inferior to the humans according to Socrates?
(a) The thing living in volcanoes.
(b) The thing dwelling in caves.
(c) The things living under the ocean.
(d) The thing living in the heavens.

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

7. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?
(a) Fear.
(b) The body.
(c) Feelings.
(d) The soul.

8. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) How the soul escapes the body.
(b) Consider matters through his soul alone.
(c) The truth behind harmony.
(d) The value of a senator's soul.

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

10. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?
(a) Local causes.
(b) The will of men.
(c) Effects.
(d) The gods.

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

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

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

14. What doesn't earth need to prevent it from falling?
(a) Air.
(b) Fire.
(c) Soil.
(d) Water.

15. What is good to believe before dying according to Socrates?
(a) Dying is not painful.
(b) The soul survives death.
(c) The gods love you.
(d) Your friend can find you in the afterlife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What analogy does Simmias abandon in 88c-95a?

2. What does Socrates argue the soul lacks?

3. What does Socrates think of the cause of things?

4. What is Socrates wondering about the state of the soul when it leaves the body at the start of 81b-88b?

5. What did the people present with Socrates think of his argument according to Phaedo?

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