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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 account of Socrates' death say were present beside Socrates' friends?
(a) The undertaker.
(b) Some strangers.
(c) Members of the Senate.
(d) Aristophanes.

2. What does Socrates argue cannot come from the present life in 73a-81a?
(a) Our knowledge of equals.
(b) Inequality.
(c) Our memories.
(d) Our loved ones.

3. What ways do things exist according to Socrates?
(a) Visible and invisible.
(b) Spicy and bland
(c) Wet and dry.
(d) Small and large.

4. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?
(a) Being generous, loved and respected.
(b) Power, sex and influence.
(c) Food, drink and sex.
(d) Food, drink and political power.

5. Why should Socrates resent dying according to Cebes?
(a) God protects his possessions.
(b) Dying does not bring fame.
(c) His wife and child need him.
(d) He still has too much to do.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What type of men resent dying according to Cebes?

3. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?

4. What does Socrates argue that we must have learned what we know recollect imply?

5. What does Socrates argue a man following philosophy would receive?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Socrates and Cebes discuss about the composite and non-composite?

2. What does Socrates wonder about in regards to knowledge?

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

4. What should those who love learning do and why?

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

6. What must man do in order to attain pure knowledge?

7. What does Socrates say should be the one goal of the philosopher?

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

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

10. What does Socrates argue about opposites from opposites?

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