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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 did Socrates teach to a person while talking with Meno?
(a) Reading.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mythology.
(d) Geometry.

2. How did the third party in the discussion between Socrates and Meno feel about the people who taught virtue?
(a) He hated them.
(b) He was confused by them.
(c) He agreed with them.
(d) He was afraid of them.

3. What kind of entertainment did Socrates say poetry was?
(a) Second rate.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Middle class.

4. What was Gorgias's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Senator.
(c) Speaker.
(d) Builder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Protagoras describe a good life?

2. Why did Socrates say strength would not be a part of virtue?

3. What did Socrates say controlled most men?

4. Whom did Socrates teach while speaking with Meno?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Socrates feel about poetry?

2. What point did Protagoras try to make about pleasure?

3. What did Meno compare his conversation to Socrates with, and why?

4. What did Socrates say happened when we learned new things?

5. What did Socrates say about immediate pleasures?

6. What did Anytus say about people who went to sophists for learning?

7. What was ironic about Socrates bringing up a poem from Pindar?

8. What did Socrates do with Meno to try to discover what virtue was?

9. How did Socrates define fear?

10. Why did Socrates say he was honored to be speaking with Protagoras?

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