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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Socrates say all men should learn to do to gauge the greater good?
(a) How to calm others.
(b) How to educate themselves.
(c) How to use measurement.
(d) How to compare themselves.

2. What part of knowledge did Socrates say was hard to identify?
(a) The role.
(b) The cause.
(c) The effects.
(d) The source.

3. What did Socrates claim was impossible?
(a) To see the gods.
(b) To be evil.
(c) To be good.
(d) To please the gods.

4. Whom did Socrates teach while speaking with Meno?
(a) A dancer.
(b) A maid.
(c) A small child.
(d) A slave boy.

5. Of what did Socrates say virtue would have to be a variety?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Personality.
(c) Faith.
(d) Soul.

6. How many parts of virtue did Protagoras say there were?
(a) 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

7. What did Pindar write?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Poetry.
(c) History.
(d) Theology.

8. Who was the goddess of the dead?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Athena.
(c) Venus.
(d) Hestia.

9. Where did the dialogue between Meno and Socrates take place?
(a) Thebes.
(b) Athens.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sparta.

10. What bad thing did Socrates say caused a greater good?
(a) Aging.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Pain.
(d) Punishment.

11. What did Protagoras say kept some men from doing good things?
(a) Pain.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Pleasure.
(d) Fear.

12. Whom were the only people claiming to teach virtue at the time of Socrates?
(a) Universities.
(b) Sophists.
(c) Religious men.
(d) The gods.

13. What did Socrates compare men to when talking to Meno?
(a) Spiders.
(b) Flies.
(c) Beetles.
(d) Bees.

14. Why did Protagoras not have a true hometown?
(a) His town was destroyed.
(b) He was an orphan.
(c) He traveled for a living.
(d) He was banished from his town.

15. For what did Protagoras charge fees?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Writing.
(c) Singing.
(d) Counseling.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Protagoras describe a good life?

2. How did Socrates define shape?

3. To what did Socrates have Meno apply his theory of learning?

4. Which of these was NOT one of the good things Socrates said men should want?

5. What kind of definitions did Meno like best?

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