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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, The Phaedo: Chapter 3, The Phaedo Conclusion & Notes.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Phaedo describe Socrates' execution?
(a) Heart-wrenching.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Unfair.
(d) Horrifying.

3. What was the relationship, according to Crito and Socrates, between just actions and natural ones?
(a) An action may be natural, but unjust.
(b) An action may be just, but not natural.
(c) Just actions are always natural.
(d) Natural actions are always just.

4. What did Crito want Socrates to do?
(a) Appeal his sentence before it was too late.
(b) Make peace with his relatives.
(c) Spend time with his family before his death.
(d) Attempt to escape from prison.

5. Crito first attempted to persuade Socrates with what type of argument?
(a) Intellectual.
(b) Emotional.
(c) Moral.
(d) Philosophical.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates experience as a result of drinking the hemlock?

2. How does Tarrant recommend avoiding confusion based on differences in pagination between the versions?

3. Who went to see the Apollonian Oracle at Delphi?

4. What question did Socrates' friend ask of the Oracle?

5. Who writes the comments introducing the first dialogue?

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