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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Socrates' republic, judges must__________.
(a) Be completely removed from evil.
(b) Be fair and lax.
(c) Be fair and strict.
(d) Be good, but able to spot evil.

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

3. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:
(a) Learning is really a recollection of old knowledge.
(b) There can never be universal ethics.
(c) A proposition can only be deemed valid if it is testable in the empirical world.
(d) Non- virtuous people can still perform virtuous actions

4. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(b) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(c) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(d) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?

5. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?
(a) Universal.
(b) Ironic.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?

2. What are the three social classes in the republic, according to Socrates?

3. Ultimately, Socrates concludes that justice is______________.

4. How are leaders chosen in Socrates' ideal republic?

5. How does Socrates rebut the definition of virtue offered by the poets?

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