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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the result of Pheidippides' time with Socrates?
(a) Pheidippides becomes religiously zealous about Zeus.
(b) Pheidippides learns great rhetorical skills.
(c) Socrates teaches him to be a master of astronomy.
(d) Pheidippides is dismissed for being stupid.

2. How does the jury get to decide the sentence for Socrates?
(a) The prosecution provides the sentence.
(b) The mayor provides the sentence.
(c) No matter the crime, the penalty is death.
(d) They choose between two proposed sentences.

3. At what point does Strepsiades stop speaking to Pheidippides?
(a) When Pheidippides tries to trick Strepsiades' creditors.
(b) When Pheidippides enrolls with Socrates.
(c) When Pheidippides threatens to beat up his own mother.
(d) When Pheidippides reads a poem about incest.

4. What is prophecy?
(a) Knowledge of the future.
(b) Faith in the gods.
(c) A ritual rite of passage to manhood.
(d) Hatred for one's own family.

5. What does Euthyphro believe about local teachings about Zeus?
(a) He is actively hostile to the followers of Zeus, heckling him whenever he can.
(b) He rejects them completely.
(c) He believes in them wholeheartedly.
(d) He accepts them, but only in order to spare the city conflict.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Socrates characterize the gods in Euthyphro?

2. Why does Socrates compare himself to Achilles?

3. Where does Crito take place?

4. What decision is Socrates faced with at the beginning of Crito?

5. Which god does Euthyphro admire above all others?

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