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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the term "philosopher" mean?
(a) Inquisitor.
(b) Lover of wisdom.
(c) Purveyor of knowledge.
(d) Educated person.

2. 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.

3. According to the introduction to the Phaedo, what are the most likely causes of suicide?
(a) A desire for a measure of control over one's death.
(b) Release from pain, or consequences.
(c) Guilt and low self-worth.
(d) A desire for attention, or to be remembered.

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

5. Who is Phaedo?
(a) Meletus' cousin.
(b) One of Socrates' friends.
(c) Socrates' son.
(d) Plato's brother.

6. On what day does the "Phaedo" take place?
(a) Two days before Socrates' execution.
(b) The day of Socrates' execution.
(c) A week after Socrates' execution.
(d) The day of Socrates' trial.

7. What is the term for realizing that one's expectations are too high?
(a) Dystopia.
(b) Disgruntled.
(c) Disillusionment.
(d) Dysphasia.

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

9. Who lost control of his emotions at Socrates' execution?
(a) Phaedo.
(b) Crito.
(c) Appollonius.
(d) Echecrates.

10. What does "transmigration of souls" mean?
(a) The journey across the River Styx.
(b) The communications from the dead that are received by the living.
(c) Some aspects of an individual exist before, during, and after their lifetime.
(d) Displaced souls that roam the earth.

11. What did the Pythagoreans like to explore?
(a) The motivations of the gods.
(b) The ways in which deity could be found to manifest itself in everyday life.
(c) The physical and scientific causes of things.
(d) The spiritual and intellectual characteristics of man.

12. What is the reason, according to Socrates, for "mislogic"?
(a) People are more interested in "winning" an argument than in knowing the truth.
(b) People don't know how to use logic correctly.
(c) People don't understand the limitations of logic.
(d) People are defeated in logical arguments.

13. What was Socrates doing when Crito arrived?
(a) Eating.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Praying.
(d) Writing.

14. What is misanthropy?
(a) Committing a social blunder.
(b) Lack of social skills.
(c) Hatred of women.
(d) Hatred of people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Crito's dialogue with Socrates, who had the right to control a given set of circumstances, or a relationship?

2. Why did Crito come to visit Socrates?

3. According to Tarrant, what parts of a person did the Greeks believe persisted through death?

4. According to Socrates and his friends, what happens to a soul after it spends some time in the Underworld?

5. Who was Phaedo telling the story of Socrates' execution to?

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