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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates' opinion, what is the third happiest social class of man in the world?
(a) The philosophy student.
(b) The atheistic man.
(c) The democratic man.
(d) The tyrant.

2. Who said the following: "Whether in battle or in a court of law, or in any other place, he must do what his city and his country order him; or he must change their view of what is just"?
(a) Phaedo's assistant.
(b) Socrates' son.
(c) A prison guard.
(d) One of Socrates' students.

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

4. How does Socrates regard a democracy?
(a) Socrates thinks that the people should be able to choose who leads them.
(b) Socrates thinks democracy is the worst form of government.
(c) Socrates thinks it is the best form of government in all cases.
(d) Socrates is only for a democracy if it has a bipartisan senate.

5. Which subject should be taught last in Socrates' curriculum?
(a) Dialectic (the study of reasoning).
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Ontology (study of being).
(d) Logic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Philosophers, according to Socrates' analogy, are which of the following?

2. Who said, "the unexamined life is not worth living"?

3. When Phaedo first arrives at the prison, what is Socrates doing?

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

5. Socrates' republic would have a ruling _________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Socrates think that the philosopher is always the happiest man in the state?

2. What is the ultimate goal of the philosopher, as explained by Socrates in Book VI? How does he attain this?

3. How does Socrates defend against Meletus' chargers of impiety?

4. Why does Socrates say in Book VII that "philosophers don't want to rule"?

5. How can tyranny arise in a democratic state?

6. How does Socrates argue that it is unlawful to break out of prison?

7. What is the point of Socrates' discussion of evil and injustice after death?

8. Why does Socrates think that the forms of government are like forms in the human soul?

9. If one cannot live like a philosopher, what does Socrates think he should do?

10. How is the entire Apology an example of Socratic wisdom in practice?

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