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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the surprise visitor to the symposium, and why does he come?
(a) There is no surprise visitor.
(b) Aristotle arrives late because he traveled farther than the others.
(c) Appolodorus comes because he is angry he wasn't invited.
(d) Alcibiades comes because he is drunk and wants to seduce Socrates.

2. What is an oligarchy?
(a) Rule by the military.
(b) Rule by the elite.
(c) Rule by the rich.
(d) Rule by the poor.

3. In Socrates' ideal nation, literature which depicts the afterlife should depict it as___________.
(a) Negative.
(b) Foreboding.
(c) Mysterious.
(d) Positive.

4. In Book IX, the democratic man is described by Socrates as one who_________.
(a) Cares only for himself.
(b) Will not fulfill his perverse desires because he has a conscience.
(c) Is just as evil as the tyrannical man.
(d) Is the most virtuous type of person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates' points in Book IV, the soul of a philosopher_____________________.

2. What is a symposium?

3. What types of stories, according to Socrates, ought we to read to children when they are very young?

4. According to Socrates, the goal of his ideal city is__________________.

5. Socrates thinks that poets and painters are_____________.

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