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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) Explain why he is going to die.
(b) Defend his beliefs.
(c) Tell another story.
(d) Eat with his friends.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What can Form not admit, according to Socrates?
(a) Opposites.
(b) That Socrates holds the truth.
(c) That the soul is immortal.
(d) That it is wrong.

9. Who directs harmony according to Socrates' argument?
(a) Muses.
(b) The lyre.
(c) The harp.
(d) Gods.

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

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

12. What is better than divine doctrine concerning the next life according to Simmias?
(a) The best of men's theories.
(b) Socrates' doctrine.
(c) Knowing nothing.
(d) Discovering it firsthand.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?

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

3. Where do the ones that lived an average life go after death according to Socrates?

4. Why are the souls wandering the earth according to Socrates?

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

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