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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 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.

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

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Socrates looking into to answer Cebes' question?

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

5. How big does Socrates think earth is?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Socrates say of the journey of well-ordered souls?

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

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

5. What are the four major rivers of the earth according to Socrates?

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

7. What is Tartarus according to Socrates?

8. Who directs the body according to Socrates?

9. What do Phaedo and Echecrates want more of?

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

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