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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book VI.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Polemarchus define justice?
(a) Allowing each man to live his life freely.
(b) Being fair in all contexts.
(c) Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
(d) Doing good to one's friends and evil to one's enemies.

2. What does Socrates assert about his views of the ideal state?
(a) They will bring about the coming of a new empire.
(b) They are without flaw.
(c) They break certain established social norms.
(d) They are based on insidious accusations against the current ruling power.

3. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:
(a) Non- virtuous people can still perform virtuous actions
(b) Learning is really a recollection of old knowledge.
(c) A proposition can only be deemed valid if it is testable in the empirical world.
(d) There can never be universal ethics.

4. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?
(a) If it can be taught then it is knowledge.
(b) It cannot be taught and is therefore not knowledge.
(c) If it is the same in everyone, then we should be able to define it.
(d) If it manifests differently in different people, than it cannot have one definition.

5. Who is Asclepius?
(a) A tyrant who reigns over his people.
(b) A doctor who gave simple and quick treatments to his patients.
(c) A ruler who looks kindly among his subjects.
(d) A philosopher who offers a competing argument.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Meno arrives in Athens, who is accompanying him?

2. In Book V, what is the philosopher concerned with, according to Socrates?

3. What assertion is made by Socrates when he responds to Adeimantus' point?

4. Socrates explains that the common man sees the philosopher as useless because_________.

5. Which of the following ideas are not mentioned in Book VI?

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