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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say the body is responsible for?
(a) War and discord.
(b) Angst and ignorance.
(c) Pleasure and envy.
(d) Love and respect.

2. Who recounts Socrates' death at the start of "Phaedo"?
(a) Menexenus.
(b) Cebes.
(c) Phaedo.
(d) Antisthenes.

3. Who will Socrates say he will join in death?
(a) His students.
(b) His friends that passed.
(c) The gods.
(d) Good men.

4. In "Phaedo", what is the abstract fact about the world that makes it true that two sticks are of the same type?
(a) Similar.
(b) Almost the same.
(c) Identical.
(d) Equal.

5. Who does the recount of Socrates' conversation with Cebes tell us was Socrates writing in honor of before his death?
(a) The god of the festival.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Apollo and Venus.
(d) His mother.

6. What does Socrates argue is not possible without wisdom?
(a) Fear.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Love.
(d) Virtue.

7. What are course and moderation part of according to Socrates?
(a) Hatred.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Love.

8. What can be compared by using reference to knowledge of the perfect form?
(a) Unequal things.
(b) Gods.
(c) Men.
(d) Partly equal things.

9. Who does the philosopher want to be with according to Socrates?
(a) His family.
(b) Himself.
(c) His students.
(d) His friends.

10. What is recollection produced by according to Socrates?
(a) The brain.
(b) Luck.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Knowledge.

11. What does the theory Socrates say some people believe in argue happens to the soul after death?
(a) They are reincarnated.
(b) They go to the afterworld.
(c) They die.
(d) Their fate depends on the gods.

12. How did Socrates die according to the account of the event?
(a) Holding his wife's hand.
(b) Crying.
(c) In pain.
(d) Without fear.

13. What did the one recounting the event of Socrates' death feel for him?
(a) No pity.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Envy.
(d) Shame.

14. How does course and moderation see death according to Socrates' argument?
(a) Evil.
(b) Unavoidable.
(c) Good.
(d) Necessary.

15. What does purification consist of according to Socrates?
(a) Cleansing.
(b) Renunciation.
(c) Love.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?

2. How does the man recounting Socrates' death qualify it?

3. What can be achieved in death that could not be achieved in life according to Socrates?

4. What does Socrates argue cannot come from the present life in 73a-81a?

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

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