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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?
(a) If poetry consists of statements which belong to other arts, then such "other arts" are actually one thing.
(b) A poem's content cannot belong to the one who recites it.
(c) Poetry was not meant to be read aloud.
(d) A poem's content always belongs to the one who recites it.

2. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Glaucon's own virtue.
(b) Justice as it relates to a small family.
(c) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.
(d) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.

3. Socrates intends his imagined city to be taken as a symbolic model for__________.
(a) Justice personified.
(b) The individual soul.
(c) The natural animal kingdom.
(d) Collective consciousness.

4. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
(a) Memorizing poetry is a way of balancing the soul.
(b) Ion should memorize philosophy instead of poetry.
(c) Only a person who understands a poem's meaning could be a good reciter.
(d) Ion must not know the meaning of poetry if he just memorizes it.

5. When first asked by Socrates to define virtue, Meno responds with which of the following?
(a) A question, asking Socrates if this is really worth his time.
(b) Examples of virtuous people with different lifestyles.
(c) A theoretical ontology with ethical limitations on virtue.
(d) A vague unassuming definition which is accepted by Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

2. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?

3. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?

4. According to Socrates, what happens when "one [is] mistaken in his judgment, and harms his friends, and helps his enemies, unknowingly"?

5. In Ion, Socrates concludes that Ion's ability to memorize poetry is which of the following?

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