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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 think is the highest form of art according to his conversation with Cebes?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Painting.
(c) Writing.
(d) Sculpting.

2. What does Socrates argue dead things come from?
(a) Living things.
(b) War.
(c) The afterlife.
(d) The sea.

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

4. What must exist for two things to be the same according to Socrates?
(a) Equality of numbers.
(b) Someone to identify them.
(c) Equality of size.
(d) Equality the Form.

5. Who claimed to have been with Socrates when he died at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Cebes.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Giton.
(d) Plato.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does the account tell was present during Socrates' trial beside his friends?

3. What ways do things exist according to Socrates?

4. What is the only way to truly achieve virtue according to Socrates?

5. Who owns men according to 62c?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the theory of opposites imply about dead things at the end of 66b-72e?

2. What might the soul be unable to do, according to the end of 73a-81a?

3. On the day Socrates was to die, who did Socrates stand before and why?

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

5. What does recollection imply about similarity?

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

7. What does Socrates say to defend death?

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

9. Who was present when Socrates died?

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

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