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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is timocracy?
(a) Rule by the elite.
(b) Rule by the poor.
(c) Rule by the military.
(d) Rule by the rich.

2. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?
(a) Appolodorus.
(b) Diotima.
(c) Aristophenes.
(d) Socrates.

3. Tyranny is most likely to occur under which form of government?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Aristocracy.
(c) Timocracy.
(d) Oligarchy.

4. Adeimantus interrupts Socrates in the beginning of Book VI to ask him ____________.
(a) When students get to become full-fledged philosophers.
(b) Why philosophers are either useless or evil.
(c) Whether philosophy is an activity or a profession.
(d) Why he wants philosophers to rule the city.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Though Glaucon is primarily concerned about justice within the individual, Socrates first begins by analyzing __________.

2. How does Socrates regard a timocracy?

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

4. In Book IX, what is the philosopher's deepest pleasure?

5. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?

(see the answer key)

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