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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates conclude at the end of 88c-95a?
(a) The soul is not harmony.
(b) The soul is composite.
(c) The soul is harmony.
(d) The soul is mortal.

2. Where does Socrates think the people of earth dwell?
(a) On its surface.
(b) In its oceans.
(c) In his caves.
(d) In the hollows of the earth.

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

4. Who is inferior to the humans according to Socrates?
(a) The things living under the ocean.
(b) The thing dwelling in caves.
(c) The thing living in volcanoes.
(d) The thing living in the heavens.

5. Who guides each man to the next station after death?
(a) His guardian spirit.
(b) The gods.
(c) His soul knows where to go.
(d) His dead family.

6. What does Socrates think earth is?
(a) A flat circle.
(b) A large tube holding the heavens.
(c) A cube supported by a turtle.
(d) A sphere in the middle of the heavens.

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

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

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

10. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?
(a) A guide brings them back to earth.
(b) They are guided to heaven.
(c) They wait for a new body.
(d) They educate themselves.

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

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

13. What was Socrates aware of according to Phaedo?
(a) That he needed to leave Athens.
(b) That it was time to die.
(c) That Phaedo didn't trust him.
(d) The need for more arguments.

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

15. What doesn't earth need to prevent it from falling?
(a) Soil.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Air.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates think of desires?

2. Where do the ones that lived an average life go after death according to Socrates?

3. What can Form not admit, according to Socrates?

4. What will philosophy free according to Socrates?

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

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