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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Aristophanes' Clouds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the dialogue in Euthyphro end?
(a) Plato died before he finished writing it.
(b) There is a great earthquake.
(c) Socrates is taken to prison.
(d) Euthyphro becomes frustrated and leaves.

2. Where does Crito take place?
(a) In Socrates' school.
(b) At Plato's home.
(c) In prison.
(d) In Crito's study.

3. What ultimate sentence is handed down by the jury?
(a) Death by poison.
(b) Life imprisonment.
(c) A fine.
(d) Death by hanging.

4. Why has Strepsiades run into financial difficulties?
(a) Strepsiades has a weakness for gambling.
(b) Strepsiades has no financial difficulties; in fact, he is wealthy.
(c) Strepsiades' son has been self-indulgent.
(d) Strepsiades paid dearly for an oracle's help.

5. Who does Euthyphro compare to himself and his father?
(a) Zeus and Hercules.
(b) Zeus and Kronos.
(c) Zeus and Hera.
(d) Plato and Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Socrates heartened about the possibility of an afterlife?

2. What problem is Strepsiades dealing with at the beginning of The Clouds?

3. Why does the Athenian community treat Euthyphro with contempt and derision?

4. How does Socrates try to prove that the Athenian definition of corruption is defective?

5. Citizens could not be good individuals without what?

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