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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 is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?
(a) Cebes.
(b) Himself.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Simmias.
2. What does Socrates says of his ability with the area he is looking into, in order to answer Cebes' question?
(a) It is a useless area for a philosopher.
(b) He never practiced it.
(c) He has intimate knowledge of it.
(d) He has little ability in it.
3. What means does Socrates say allows beautiful things to be called beautiful?
(a) The imagination.
(b) The soul.
(c) The Beautiful.
(d) The reality.
4. What we must do for all time according to Socrates at the start of 107c-115e?
(a) Prepare for death.
(b) Be truthful.
(c) Take care of our soul.
(d) Worship the gods.
5. What must first happen to those who die according to Socrates?
(a) They must be judged.
(b) They must pay to pass in the other world.
(c) They must renounce the body.
(d) They must go through purgatory.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Socrates think earth is?
2. What did Phaedo and Echecrates want from Socrates in 88c-95a?
3. What question does Cebes ask Socrates concerning the soul's long existence?
4. What does Socrates say would be harmed if he thinks about empirical causes further?
5. What does Socrates say about the belief that soul could be composite after death, but non composite before?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Socrates conclude on the explanation in the changes of things?
2. Why was Socrates disappointed by Anaxagoras?
3. Who directs the body according to Socrates?
4. At the end of 81b-88b, what does Socrates say the soul cannot be damaged by?
5. Why does Socrates worry that he might hurt his senses?
6. According to Socrates in 88c-95a, what is there no greater evil than and why does he believe this?
7. How does the soul rule the man according to Socrates?
8. What does Socrates say of the Forms and the particular?
9. How will philosophy free the soul, according to 81b - 88b?
10. What is Tartarus according to Socrates?
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