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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 say cannot be attained as long as the body and the soul are fused?
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Truth.
(d) Nirvana.

2. What should the philosopher avoid according to Socrates?
(a) Bodily passions.
(b) Politics.
(c) Poison.
(d) Women.

3. What relation does Socrates see between Tallness and Shortness?
(a) They cannot participate in each other.
(b) They are the same, but inverted.
(c) Shortness is more important than Tallness.
(d) They are linked.

4. What is happening to things Socrates says he knew before?
(a) Most of them are false.
(b) They are proving to be wrong.
(c) They are clearer than ever.
(d) He becomes blind to them.

5. What conclusion does Socrates deduce from his arguments in the first part of 66b-72e?
(a) That fear leads to death.
(b) That his wisdom is superior to that of Cebes.
(c) That he is right to die without resentment.
(d) That death is incompatible with wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What could a glutton return as according to Socrates?

3. What does Socrates say a bravery should not be a response to?

4. What does the theory Socrates say some people believe in argue happens to the soul after death?

5. Why are the souls wandering the earth according to Socrates?

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