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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. Crito and Socrates agreed that what action is always unjust?
(a) Avoiding one's punishment.
(b) Doing a just thing for the wrong reasons.
(c) Harming others.
(d) Judging another person.

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

3. Approximately how many people were present at Socrates' execution?
(a) 15.
(b) 25.
(c) 5.
(d) 35.

4. In what area of thought did the Pythagorean school excel?
(a) Music.
(b) All answers are correct.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Philosophy.

5. Who temporarily won the debate in Book 5, Chapter 2?
(a) Phaedo and Cebes.
(b) Simmias and Crito.
(c) Simmias and Cebes.
(d) Socrates and Phaedo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prompted Socrates to try this new activity in prison?

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

3. What happens to energy, according to the Pythagoreans?

4. What did Socrates say about the jurors who convicted him?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Socrates' execution delayed?

3. What was the Pythagorean school of thought?

4. What is the intended audience for Book 5?

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

6. What does Tarrant use as an example to illustrate the differences in mentality, in this section, regarding death and suicide?

7. What is the setting of Book 4?

8. What does Crito want Socrates to do?

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

10. What is the "transmigration of souls"?

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