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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. What do we know about Phaedo?
(a) His intellect rivaled that of Socrates.
(b) He died at a very early age.
(c) He was not an actual living person.
(d) He suffered terribly.

2. Was Plato present at Socrates' execution?
(a) No, he was unwell.
(b) Phaedo doesn't say.
(c) Yes.
(d) No, he did not want to attend.

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

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

5. Each theory about the afterlife that is presented by Socrates' friends represents a different conception of what?
(a) The soul.
(b) Mortality.
(c) The gods.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Crito say about how he would be affected, personally, by Socrates' death?

2. Against who were Socrates and his partner debating at the end of Book 5, Chapter 2?

3. What was the reason for what happened to Socrates after his trial?

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

5. What concept does Tarrant label as "Christian," which he says the Greeks did not possess?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Socrates' execution delayed?

3. What was the Pythagorean school of thought?

4. What is "Idealism" in philosophy?

5. What is the setting of Book 4?

6. What does Crito want Socrates to do?

7. What evidence led Plato and the Pythagoreans to the theory of an eternal soul?

8. What were the ancient Greeks' beliefs regarding the afterlife?

9. What is the "transmigration of souls"?

10. How does Crito attempt to persuade Socrates?

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