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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 say cannot contain a harmony?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) A harmony.
(c) The soul.
(d) The body.

2. What does Simmias think of knowledge about the next life?
(a) It is easy to gain.
(b) It is difficult to gain.
(c) Everyone has it.
(d) The dead have it.

3. How does Socrates try to uncover causes?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) The scientific method.
(c) His own method.
(d) The gods.

4. Why is the soul in a poor state after it leaves the body according to Socrates?
(a) By being unable to escape.
(b) By being ignorant.
(c) By being associated with the body.
(d) By losing his virtue.

5. What does Socrates say of the relationship between the soul and body?
(a) The body controls the soul.
(b) The soul controls the body.
(c) Gods control the soul.
(d) The body and the soul are two different beings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates says of his ability with the area he is looking into, in order to answer Cebes' question?

2. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?

3. What relation does Socrates see between Tallness and Shortness?

4. What are the heavens according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates think earth balanced in the middle of?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of 81b-88b, what does Socrates say the soul cannot be damaged by?

2. How will philosophy free the soul, according to 81b - 88b?

3. What did Cebes think that Socrates did with his arguments on the soul?

4. What does Socrates say about caring for the soul?

5. What does Socrates say about the Beautiful?

6. What does Socrates say of the Forms and the particular?

7. What does Socrates conclude on the explanation in the changes of things?

8. What is Tartarus according to Socrates?

9. Why was Socrates disappointed by Anaxagoras?

10. According to Socrates in 88c-95a, what is there no greater evil than and why does he believe this?

(see the answer keys)

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