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

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

3. In order to respond to Glaucon's objections, Socrates ___________________.
(a) Analogizes justice to fine skills like woodworking and carpentry.
(b) Tries to find justice in animals before finding justice in humans.
(c) Posits an ideal city so that he might discover where justice comes from.
(d) Changes the subject completely.

4. When pressed by Socrates to explain his skill, Ion asserts which of the following?
(a) When he recites passage about military exploits he cannot tell if he does so with the candor of a general.
(b) Socrates should not be asking him questions.
(c) He is unqualified to comment on the artistic value of the his recitations.
(d) When he recites poetry he feels like the poet himself.

5. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?
(a) Homer.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?

2. In his first argument, Glaucon asserts that is better to __________.

3. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

4. How does Meno respond to Socrates' question: "Do bees differ as bees, because there are many different kinds of them; or, are they not rather to be distinguished by some other quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape?"

5. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?

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