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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. What topic does Socrates discuss to answer Cebes question?
(a) Physics.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Natural science.

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

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

4. How big does Socrates think earth is?
(a) About a thousand miles.
(b) Small.
(c) Quite large.
(d) The size of the universe.

5. What did Socrates feel when he said that the one teaching about the "Mind" was not applying his own teachings?
(a) Angry.
(b) Happy.
(c) Disappointed.
(d) Surprised.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anaxagoras appeal to to explain causes?

2. What is Socrates wondering about the state of the soul when it leaves the body at the start of 81b-88b?

3. Why are the souls wandering the earth according to Socrates?

4. To whom do the souls that wander the earth belong according to Socrates?

5. Who taught Socrates that "Mind" directs and causes everything?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Socrates think of the shape of earth?

2. Why was Socrates disappointed by Anaxagoras?

3. Who directs the body according to Socrates?

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

5. What is Tartarus according to Socrates?

6. What happens to the soul after death according to Socrates?

7. What does Socrates say about harmony at the end of 81b-88b?

8. What do Phaedo and Echecrates want more of?

9. What does Socrates think of the nature of the soul before and after death?

10. At the end of 81b-88b, what does Socrates say the soul cannot be damaged by?

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