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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. Who does the recount of Socrates' conversation with Cebes tell us was Socrates writing in honor of before his death?
(a) The god of the festival.
(b) Apollo and Venus.
(c) Sparta.
(d) His mother.

2. What does the body do to the soul according to Socrates' argument in 66b-72e?
(a) It kills it.
(b) It contaminates it.
(c) It supports it.
(d) It supersedes it.

3. Who does Socrates tell Cebes to relate his final writing to?
(a) Plato.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Evenus.
(d) His mother.

4. What are course and moderation part of according to Socrates?
(a) Gluttony.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Love.
(d) Hatred.

5. Which two characters are talking at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Plato and Socrates.
(b) Phaedo and Plato.
(c) Phaedo and Echecrates.
(d) Socrates and Echecrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Phaedo", what is the abstract fact about the world that makes it true that two sticks are of the same type?

2. What did "the Eleven" tell Socrates according to the account?

3. What did Socrates decide he should write before his death?

4. Who wasn't present at Socrates' death according to the account?

5. Who had to be led away during Socrates' trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Simmias admit about the Just, Beautiful and the Good at the end of 62d-66a?

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

3. What does Socrates argue about opposites from opposites?

4. What does Echecrates ask Phaedo at the beginning of "Phaedo"?

5. What do Cebes and Simmias claim about the wise?

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

7. What does Socrates say opposites contain?

8. What does Socrates believe about freedom and what does this mean for the philosopher

9. What does recollection imply about similarity?

10. When Socrates was on trial, what happened to his wife?

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