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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Apology.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?
(a) A dying animal to explain how the sole individual is part of a significant collective.
(b) A magnet to explain how a poet's inspiration moves from the muse to the audience.
(c) An eye attempting to see itself, explaining how our mental visions are limited by the bounds of our brain.
(d) A newly born start to explain how small and insignificant our world is in the greater picture.

2. Socrates believes that unjust men_________.
(a) Will not necessarily be punished in death.
(b) Don't deserve death and should have to live forever.
(c) Will be rewarded by the unjust gods.
(d) Will be punished in death.

3. What is an oligarchy?
(a) Rule by the poor.
(b) Rule by the military.
(c) Rule by the rich.
(d) Rule by the elite.

4. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
(b) Agathon's poetic license.
(c) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(d) How one can know that he is truly in love.

5. Meletus claims that Socrates said which of the following?
(a) "Everything is unified and there is no such thing as particulars."
(b) "That the gods do not exist."
(c) "That the sun's a stone and the moon is earth."
(d) "There is no good reason to follow Athenian law."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a democracy?

2. According to Socrates' radical math, the tyrant's life is 729 times________.

3. According to Socrates, what would be one way for philosopher-rule to commence?

4. What counter-example does Socrates employ as evidence that a state is flawed?

5. Socrates firmly believes that poetry _____________.

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