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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?
(a) Diotima.
(b) Plato.
(c) Meno.
(d) Alcibides.

2. Whose side is Adeimantus on, at least in the beginning of the dialogue?
(a) He has his own distinct position.
(b) Socrates'.
(c) He does not advocate his own position, and he is on neither Glaucon's nor Socrates' side.
(d) Glaucon's.

3. Why does Socrates speak about dogs and other animals to Glaucon?
(a) In order to show, by analogy, that it is difficult albeit not impossible to have people who are both gentle and aggressive.
(b) In hopes of finding the source of virtue.
(c) To establish grounds for a society in which people function like animals in a natural kingdom.
(d) Socrates likes animals more than people.

4. When Cephalus tends to his sacrifice, who immediately takes his place in conversation with Socrates?
(a) Thrasymachus.
(b) Glaucon.
(c) Polemarchus.
(d) Aristotle.

5. In the beginning of Book IV, Adeimantus ask Socrates__________________.
(a) Where Socrates plans to get resources to build his city.
(b) When Socrates thinks it feasible for his city to exist.
(c) Why the city's soldiers should be deprived of material happiness.
(d) Why Socrates adopts such a strange view of medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?

2. What poet is cited by Cephalus to explain the paradox of old age?

3. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?

4. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?

5. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

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