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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 argue the good soul is?
(a) Harmonized.
(b) A philosopher's.
(c) Contemplative.
(d) Fearful.

2. Who is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Himself.
(c) Cebes.
(d) Simmias.

3. What means does Socrates say allows beautiful things to be called beautiful?
(a) The imagination.
(b) The reality.
(c) The soul.
(d) The Beautiful.

4. Where does Socrates think the people of earth dwell?
(a) In the hollows of the earth.
(b) In its oceans.
(c) In his caves.
(d) On its surface.

5. What relation does Socrates see between Tallness and Shortness?
(a) Shortness is more important than Tallness.
(b) They are the same, but inverted.
(c) They cannot participate in each other.
(d) They are linked.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is inferior to the humans according to Socrates?

2. What does Simmias think of knowledge about the next life?

3. What does Socrates say about the belief that soul could be composite after death, but non composite before?

4. What does Socrates say would be harmed if he thinks about empirical causes further?

5. What does Socrates conclude at the end of 88c-95a?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Socrates think of the shape of earth?

2. Why was Socrates disappointed by Anaxagoras?

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

4. Who directs the body according to Socrates?

5. What happens to the soul after death according to Socrates?

6. What should the philosopher master?

7. What does Socrates say about the Beautiful?

8. What are the four major rivers of the earth according to Socrates?

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

10. What do Phaedo and Echecrates want more of?

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