Plato's Phaedo Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 112 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Plato's Phaedo Test | Final Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Socrates, what must genuine lovers of learning become?
(a) Brave in face of fear.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Moderate and brave.
(d) Lovers of the body.

2. What means does Socrates say allows beautiful things to be called beautiful?
(a) The imagination.
(b) The soul.
(c) The reality.
(d) The Beautiful.

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

4. What is Socrates wondering about the state of the soul when it leaves the body at the start of 81b-88b?
(a) It might be lost.
(b) It might not be knowledgeable.
(c) It might be impure.
(d) It might die.

5. What does the soul have when it leaves the body according to Socrates?
(a) Education and envy.
(b) Needs and regrets.
(c) Education and upbringing.
(d) Angst and envy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What souls hover over the earth according to Socrates?

2. What did the people present with Socrates think of his argument according to Phaedo?

3. Why is the soul in a poor state after it leaves the body according to Socrates?

4. What happen after the soul reaches and is accepted at the next station after death?

5. Who is Socrates trying to convince with his arguments about the immortality of the soul?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Socrates worry that he might hurt his senses?

2. Why was Socrates disappointed by Anaxagoras?

3. What do Phaedo and Echecrates want more of?

4. What does Socrates say about caring for the soul?

5. What did Cebes think that Socrates did with his arguments on the soul?

6. How will philosophy free the soul, according to 81b - 88b?

7. What does Socrates say about the Beautiful?

8. According to Socrates in 88c-95a, what is there no greater evil than and why does he believe this?

9. What does Socrates conclude on the explanation in the changes of things?

10. What is Tartarus according to Socrates?

(see the answer keys)

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