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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Philosophy tell men about the senses?
(a) To love them.
(b) To embrace them.
(c) To withdraw from them.
(d) To enjoy them.

2. What does Socrates argue the good soul is?
(a) Contemplative.
(b) Harmonized.
(c) A philosopher's.
(d) Fearful.

3. What is the destination of the soul determined by according to Socrates?
(a) How much was donated to the poor.
(b) The gods.
(c) The earthly behavior.
(d) The astrological sign.

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

5. What is Socrates starting to discuss after abandoning his thinking of empirical causes?
(a) Consequences.
(b) Effects.
(c) Formal causes.
(d) Himself.

6. What does Socrates say about the belief that soul could be composite after death, but non composite before?
(a) It is right.
(b) It is impossible.
(c) It is inconsistent.
(d) It is possible, but unlikely.

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

8. What does Socrates think about the path to Hades and back?
(a) It does not exist.
(b) There is only one.
(c) The path is well guarded.
(d) Many exist.

9. To whom do the souls that wander the earth belong according to Socrates?
(a) To politicians.
(b) To good men.
(c) To women.
(d) To inferior men.

10. What does the start of 88c-95a say about what Phaedo and others thought of Socrates' arguments?
(a) They were impressive.
(b) They were short.
(c) They were off topic.
(d) They were disappointing.

11. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?
(a) Why things came to be and perished.
(b) Why the soul is blind.
(c) Why things live so long.
(d) Why the soul is harmony.

12. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?
(a) Anaxagoras.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Echecrates.
(d) Plato.

13. What does Simmias think of knowledge about the next life?
(a) The dead have it.
(b) It is easy to gain.
(c) It is difficult to gain.
(d) Everyone has it.

14. What does Socrates think earth balanced in the middle of?
(a) The heavens.
(b) Water.
(c) A homogeneous substance.
(d) Ether.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directs harmony according to Socrates' argument?

2. What must first happen to those who die according to Socrates?

3. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?

4. What does the soul have when it leaves the body according to Socrates?

5. Who will the imprisonment of the body and ignorance be revealed to according to Socrates?

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