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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. How was Socrates executed?
(a) Thrown to the lions.
(b) Drawing and quartering.
(c) Self-administered hemlock poisoning.
(d) Firing squad.

2. What term did the Greeks use to refer to the souls of the departed?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Spirits.
(c) Daemons.
(d) Shades.

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

4. According to Tarrant, what parts of a person did the Greeks believe persisted through death?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Their communicative powers.
(c) Their emotions.
(d) Their thoughts.

5. When asked how to overcome the difficulty in the debate, what did Socrates suggest?
(a) Giving up.
(b) Accepting defeat graciously.
(c) Assistance.
(d) Getting an impartial observer to decide the winner.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area of thought did the Pythagorean school excel?

2. What did Crito want Socrates to do?

3. How can a person avoid all disappointment, according to Socrates?

4. What did Socrates and his partner realize, via their debate with their friends, about the nature of truth?

5. What was the relationship, according to Crito and Socrates, between just actions and natural ones?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is written in Book 5, Chapter 1, about risking the loss of one's life?

2. What does Socrates think will happen after his death?

3. What realization does Socrates have as a result of his and Phaedo's debate with Simmias and Cebes?

4. What is the "transmigration of souls"?

5. What do Socrates and Crito say about experts?

6. What conclusion do Socrates and Crito reach regarding the laws of the land?

7. What do Socrates' friends say about suicide, and the preservation of life, in the "Phaedo"?

8. What is the setting of Book 4?

9. What is "Idealism" in philosophy?

10. What is the intended audience for Book 5?

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