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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 walks the path to Hades easily according to Socrates?
(a) Souls who follow Socrates' teachings.
(b) Lost souls.
(c) Well ordered souls.
(d) Souls who remember the trip.

2. What does Socrates think earth balanced in the middle of?
(a) A homogeneous substance.
(b) Ether.
(c) Water.
(d) The heavens.

3. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?
(a) Anaxagoras.
(b) Plato.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Echecrates.

4. Who guides each man to the next station after death?
(a) His soul knows where to go.
(b) His dead family.
(c) The gods.
(d) His guardian spirit.

5. How big does Socrates think earth is?
(a) The size of the universe.
(b) Quite large.
(c) About a thousand miles.
(d) Small.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom do the souls that wander the earth belong according to Socrates?

2. What must first happen to those who die according to Socrates?

3. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?

4. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?

5. What was Socrates aware of according to Phaedo?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why was Socrates disappointed by Anaxagoras?

4. Why will some join the "gentle group" of ants?

5. What do Phaedo and Echecrates want more of?

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

7. Who directs the body according to Socrates?

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

9. Why does Socrates worry that he might hurt his senses?

10. What does Socrates think of the nature of the soul before and after death?

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