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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?
(a) It is incomplete.
(b) We cannot recollect them after 20 years of age.
(c) We recollect them from a period before the body.
(d) It is perfect.

2. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?
(a) Cleansing.
(b) Renunciation.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

3. What is the goal of a philosopher according to Socrates?
(a) To speak the truth.
(b) To avoid dying.
(c) To practice for death and dying.
(d) To avoid confrontation with the law.

4. What does Socrates say most people are ready to do when their loved ones die?
(a) Learn philosophy.
(b) Move on.
(c) Die.
(d) Go to the underworld.

5. What do the ones that fear death love more than wisdom according to Socrates?
(a) Love.
(b) The body.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) His family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the theory Socrates say some people believe in argue happens to the soul after death?

2. Who owns men according to 62c?

3. What does Socrates say often yields faulty conclusions?

4. How do things appear when perceived by the senses according to Socrates?

5. Where was Socrates held prior to dying according to the two men discussing at the start of "Phaedo"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was Socrates held in jail before his execution?

2. What does Socrates state about the fusion of body and soul at the beginning of 66b-72e?

3. Based on the beginning of 73a-81, what does Socrates teach about recollection?

4. What does Socrates argue about opposites from opposites?

5. What does Socrates say opposites contain?

6. What does Socrates claim are not the great goods of life?

7. What belief of Simmias' does Socrates question?

8. How do things exist and what does this explain about the two parts of the body?

9. What, according to Socrates, does not come from the body and what does the body cause?

10. Who was present when Socrates died?

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