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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When he first address the jury, Socrates_________.
(a) Says he will not fight the slander of others with slander.
(b) Excuses himself for speaking in common language familiar to him.
(c) Asks a lot of questions.
(d) Vehemently denies the accusations against him.

3. Socrates explains that the common man sees the philosopher as useless because_________.
(a) He is blinded by ignorance, not seeing the intrinsic importance to their purpose.
(b) He is self-serving, and, therefore, despises those who judge him.
(c) He is concerned with the soul, not with books.
(d) He mistakes thoughfulness for idleness.

4. How does Socrates regard an oligarchy?
(a) Socrates claims that oligarchy is dangerous because it often leads to an impoverished public.
(b) Socrates asserts that an oligarchy is worse than a democracy.
(c) Socrates thinks that oligarchy is the best form of government in all cases.
(d) Socrates thinks that class divisions are crucial to the success of an oligarchy.

5. Who is Cebes?
(a) Slave and master.
(b) Husband and wife.
(c) Ally and enemy.
(d) Son and father.

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

7. In Book X, Socrates returns to a discussion about _________.
(a) Military Strategy.
(b) Social affairs.
(c) Government.
(d) Poetry.

8. What does Crito want Socrates to do?
(a) Appeal the conviction entered against Socrates.
(b) Stop corrupting his son and the other young people in Greece.
(c) Break out of prison and leave Athens.
(d) Drink hemlock.

9. One theme that is present in Book X, and in other dialogues is______________.
(a) Platonic forms manifest on earth.
(b) Learning as recalled knowledge.
(c) The immortality of the soul.
(d) The myth of reincarnation.

10. To Socrates, government is best analogized as being similar to the human _________.
(a) Heart.
(b) Brain.
(c) Soul.
(d) Limbs.

11. Socrates is primarily charged with________________.
(a) Making the weaker arguments the stronger, corrupting the youth, and impiety.
(b) Violent public speech acts.
(c) Forsaking the laws and disobeying his superiors.
(d) Failing to appear in court previously.

12. Why would candidates for a philosopher-king class in the republic be tested?
(a) To show that they have no skeletons in their closets.
(b) To enjoy a life of task and reward.
(c) To prove that they are stronger than their adversaries.
(d) To ensure that they can endure different types of intellectual life.

13. What assertion is made by Socrates when he responds to Adeimantus' point?
(a) True philosophers are more concerned with absolute truth to the opinion of the masses, and only Sophists are evil.
(b) Philosophy is neither an activity nor a profession, but a calling.
(c) Students become philosophers when they stop asking such questions.
(d) Philosophers make the best rulers.

14. In Book IX, how does Socrates describe a tyrant?
(a) Elated at his sheer power.
(b) Miserable, living in constant fear.
(c) Tired because he works long hours.
(d) Confused and worried about the wrong things.

15. Which one of the following scenarios, according to Socrates, would most likely give rise to a tyrannical government?
(a) A merchant purchasing secret information about the government and using it to blackmail congress.
(b) A hero completing a mythical quest which bestows immortality upon him.
(c) A military lieutenant from within the general's ranks making a grab for power to control the timocracy.
(d) A man, claiming to save the poor from the rich in a democracy, rising to power and being immediately corrupted by it.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what did the Oracle at Delphi tell Socrates and Cherephon?

2. According to Socrates' opinion, what is the second happiest social class of man in the world?

3. The evil of the soul, explained in Book X by Socrates, is ___________.

4. According to Socrates in Book VII, to what should all philosophers aspire?

5. Socrates believes that unjust men_________.

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