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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 95b - 107b.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates decide to consider after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) Consider matters through his soul alone.
(b) The value of a senator's soul.
(c) The truth behind harmony.
(d) How the soul escapes the body.

2. What question does Cebes ask Socrates concerning the soul's long existence?
(a) Why think it controls the body?
(b) Why think it is immortal?
(c) Why think it can die?
(d) Why think it can live without the body?

3. What does fear and terror make men brave beside of?
(a) Women.
(b) Philosopher.
(c) Warriors.
(d) Senators.

4. Who is impressed by Socrates' arguments at the start of 95b-107b?
(a) Echecrates.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Simmias.
(d) Phaedo.

5. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?
(a) Effects.
(b) The gods.
(c) Local causes.
(d) The will of men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?

2. What does Socrates say most people are ready to do when their loved ones die?

3. What does Socrates believe something in existence will lead us away from in 66b-72e?

4. When can brave men face death according to Socrates?

5. What does Simmias think of knowledge about the next life?

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