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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Protagoras describe a good life?
(a) Particular.
(b) Patient.
(c) Pleasurable.
(d) Pleasing.

2. What did Socrates say immediate pleasure could cause?
(a) Relief.
(b) Long term pain.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Lasting wealth.

3. Why did Socrates say strength would not be a part of virtue?
(a) It is not something recalled by memory.
(b) It was universal.
(c) It was not universal.
(d) It could be used foolishly.

4. Which of these was NOT one of the good things Socrates said men should want?
(a) Public office.
(b) Gold.
(c) Money.
(d) Knowledge.

5. Who joined the dialogue between Socrates and Meno?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Anytus.
(c) Protagoras.
(d) Plato.

6. How did Meno define virtue?
(a) Having knowledge and using it.
(b) Being better than one was the day before.
(c) Having the five qualities of virtue.
(d) The desire to do good things.

7. Who ended the dialogue between Protagoras and Socrates?
(a) Protagoras.
(b) Meno.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Plato.

8. What did Socrates equate with being good?
(a) Perfection.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Breathing.
(d) Living.

9. How could a man not be virtuous when acquiring good things?
(a) Getting them at the wrong times.
(b) Getting them through bad methods.
(c) Getting them in the wrong quantities.
(d) Getting them for the wrong reasons.

10. Which of the following did Protagoras say sex caused?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Disease.
(c) Poverty.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

11. What did Socrates' theory of learning give people the courage to do?
(a) Let go of their past.
(b) Teach others.
(c) Get educated.
(d) Have faith.

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

13. How did Meno know Gorgias?
(a) He was his uncle.
(b) He was his nephew.
(c) He was his student.
(d) He was his brother.

14. What did Socrates often do when he wanted to learn new things?
(a) Read about it.
(b) Prayed for the wisdom.
(c) Paid an expert.
(d) Tapped into his inner knowledge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of definitions did Meno like best?

2. What did Socrates say was Prometheus's best trait?

3. What did Meno say virtue was after Socrates talked about teaching?

4. Why did Protagoras not have a true hometown?

5. For what kind of party did Socrates say poetry was appropriate?

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