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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book II.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Thrasymachus first define justice?
(a) "Acting selflessly, so that the kingdom may prosper."
(b) "Being impartial and unbiased in all decisions."
(c) "Nothing other than the advantage of the stronger."
(d) "Making laws to one's own disadvantage."
2. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?
(a) A newly born start to explain how small and insignificant our world is in the greater picture.
(b) An eye attempting to see itself, explaining how our mental visions are limited by the bounds of our brain.
(c) A magnet to explain how a poet's inspiration moves from the muse to the audience.
(d) A dying animal to explain how the sole individual is part of a significant collective.
3. Who is Socrates walking with when he is stopped by a group of men urging him to come to Cephalus' house?
(a) Plato.
(b) Meno.
(c) Glaucon.
(d) Thrasymachus.
4. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
(a) Ion must not know the meaning of poetry if he just memorizes it.
(b) Memorizing poetry is a way of balancing the soul.
(c) Only a person who understands a poem's meaning could be a good reciter.
(d) Ion should memorize philosophy instead of poetry.
5. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:
(a) There can never be universal ethics.
(b) Non- virtuous people can still perform virtuous actions
(c) A proposition can only be deemed valid if it is testable in the empirical world.
(d) Learning is really a recollection of old knowledge.
Short Answer Questions
1. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?
2. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
3. Whose side is Adeimantus on, at least in the beginning of the dialogue?
4. Who says, at the very end of Book II, "I completely endorse these patterns, and I would enact them as laws"?
5. According to Socrates' view of justice, a ruler should always:
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