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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What condition does Cebes put forth for Socrates' conclusion to be valid?
(a) The gods allow you to die properly.
(b) One cannot commit suicide.
(c) Socrates needs to be happy to die.
(d) The soul lives after death.

2. Who are "the Eleven" according to Phaedo?
(a) Socrates' best friend.
(b) Socrates' best students.
(c) The Senate palace guards.
(d) The police commissioners of Athens.

3. What does Socrates say about philosophers at the start of 62d -66a?
(a) They should be ready and willing to die.
(b) They should not talk against Athens.
(c) They need to be more vocal about their needs.
(d) They life is too precious to waste.

4. What is clearer to the soul than the body according to Socrates?
(a) Reality.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Women.
(d) Fantasm.

5. What might be an obstacle to acquiring knowledge according to Socrates?
(a) Bad teachers.
(b) Cebes.
(c) The body.
(d) Women.

6. What does Socrates say the philosopher separates?
(a) The grain from the hay.
(b) The men and the women.
(c) Family and business.
(d) The body and the soul.

7. What does Socrates argue we can identify in 73a-81a?
(a) When we are happy.
(b) When we are ready to die.
(c) When two things are equal.
(d) When philosophy is right.

8. What does Socrates argue that we must have learned what we know recollect imply?
(a) Teaching philosophy is not pointless.
(b) Souls preexist our bodies.
(c) No need to learn anything now.
(d) Recollecting past memories can be done with hypnotism.

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

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

11. What does Socrates say a bravery should not be a response to?
(a) Love.
(b) Renunciation.
(c) Fear.
(d) Desperation.

12. What does Cebes argue is the logical conclusion of a man always giving the right answer?
(a) The knowledge is innate.
(b) The questions are easy.
(c) The man has great knowledge.
(d) He is lucky.

13. 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) His mother.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Apollo and Venus.

14. What does the body do to the soul according to Socrates' argument in 66b-72e?
(a) It contaminates it.
(b) It kills it.
(c) It supports it.
(d) It supersedes it.

15. What pleasures are not the great goods of life according to Socrates?
(a) Power, sex and influence.
(b) Food, drink and sex.
(c) Being generous, loved and respected.
(d) Food, drink and political power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are moderates amongst the masses also moderate out of fear according to Socrates?

2. What argument does Cebes agree with at the start of 73a-81a?

3. According to the account of his death, how did Socrates lived his life?

4. What does Socrates argue philosophy would allow a man to face with a happy face?

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

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