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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 believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?
(a) Prison.
(b) Greed.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Confusion of senses.

2. What does the body do according to Socrates?
(a) Ruins hope.
(b) Distract from love.
(c) Liberates.
(d) Enslaves.

3. According to the account of his death, how did Socrates lived his life?
(a) Without any fear of tomorrow.
(b) As dangerously as he could.
(c) With the blessing of the gods.
(d) With great respect for it.

4. How does the man recounting Socrates' death qualify it?
(a) Astonishing.
(b) Quick.
(c) Common.
(d) Painless.

5. Who recounts Socrates' death at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Antisthenes.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Menexenus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates argue about our knowledge of Greater, smaller, Beautiful, Good, Justice and Pious?

2. What does the body do to the soul according to Socrates' argument in 66b-72e?

3. Why are moderates amongst the masses also moderate out of fear according to Socrates?

4. Why should Socrates resent dying according to Cebes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Socrates say about the gods at the end of 57a-62c?

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

5. What did Socrates tell Cebes about his dream?

6. What does Socrates say opposites contain?

7. What does Cebes ask about committing suicide and what does Socrates admit?

8. What does Socrates argue about two sticks or two stones?

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

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

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