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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, The Phaedo: Chapter 2, The Phaedo Continued.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Socrates say about the jurors who convicted him?
(a) They were being selfish.
(b) They were doing what they felt was just.
(c) The jury committed an injustice against him.
(d) They didn't know any better.

2. Why did Socrates ask Crito to be cautious?
(a) So that Crito didn't implicate himself.
(b) So that the guards wouldn't overhear them.
(c) So that the two could determine their own, and one another's, beliefs about what is just.
(d) So that Socrates' friends didn't discover his escape plot.

3. What was the other possibility that Socrates contemplated regarding the afterlife?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Reincarnation.
(c) Complete annihilation.
(d) Eternal damnation.

4. According to Socrates' friends, what happens when someone learns something?
(a) They discover something they already knew.
(b) They uncover new knowledge.
(c) They remember knowledge that already existed.
(d) They create knowledge which did not previously exist.

5. The main point of The Crito is the discussion of what ideal?
(a) Morality.
(b) Justice.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Forgiveness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Euthyphro was prosecuting someone for what crime?

2. Crito and Socrates agreed that what action is always unjust?

3. Who was the young woman at Socrates' execution?

4. What is the first of the four dialogues contained in "The Last Days of Socrates"?

5. Was Plato present at Socrates' execution?

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