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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Republic: Book VIII.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What assertion is made by Socrates when he responds to Adeimantus' point?
(a) Students become philosophers when they stop asking such questions.
(b) Philosophers make the best rulers.
(c) Philosophy is neither an activity nor a profession, but a calling.
(d) True philosophers are more concerned with absolute truth to the opinion of the masses, and only Sophists are evil.
2. According to Socrates, what are the two ways of training the soul?
(a) Conversation with oneself and with others.
(b) Religion and philosophy.
(c) Physical exercise and literary education.
(d) Mediation and medicine.
3. Tyranny is most likely to occur under which form of government?
(a) Oligarchy.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Timocracy.
(d) Democracy.
4. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.
(a) Glaucon's own virtue.
(b) Virtue as it is demanded of the city's leaders.
(c) Justice as it relates to a small family.
(d) Justice as it relates to an entire city's population.
5. 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?"
(a) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(b) "I don't understand your question."
(c) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(d) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
Short Answer Questions
1. Which one of the following scenarios, according to Socrates, would most likely give rise to a tyrannical government?
2. What is a democracy?
3. According to Socrates, what are the three parts of the soul?
4. As a consequence of misology, or a hatred of logic/reasoning, Socrates explains how the common man has trouble_________.
5. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?
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