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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What challenges does Cebes raise for Socrates?
(a) Philosophy is not a worthwhile activity if it lands one in jail under capital punishment.
(b) Socrates can still appeal the verdict.
(c) There might be no immortal soul, and when you die, there is only nothingness.
(d) There is legal precedent for breaking out of jail.

2. What does Socrates think his dream means?
(a) A foreshadowed vision of Crito coming to visit him.
(b) Socrates will go to heaven after he dies.
(c) The boat which was supposed to arrive the same day, would not arrive until tomorrow, thereby delaying his execution.
(d) The kingdom of man is not so different from the animal kingdom.

3. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Eryximachus.
(d) Agathon.

4. Whose stories does Socrates think dangerous for the moral turpitude of his city's citizens?
(a) Various works by Pindar.
(b) Heretical poetry by Shakespeare and Ben Johnson.
(c) Aristotle's Poetics.
(d) Hesoid's Theogeny.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what is the best form of government?

2. What is Crito's relationship to Socrates?

3. How does Socrates regard a timocracy?

4. In Book IX, the democratic man is described by Socrates as one who_________.

5. Socrates metaphorically refers to himself as __________,

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