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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4, The Crito: Chapter 1, Introduction & Crito.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What did Crito offer Socrates?
(a) An overturned sentence.
(b) Money.
(c) A more comfortable place to spend his final days.
(d) A safe place to escape to.
2. Crito and Socrates agreed that what action is always unjust?
(a) Harming others.
(b) Judging another person.
(c) Avoiding one's punishment.
(d) Doing a just thing for the wrong reasons.
3. According to Euthyphro, the gods only received satisfaction from what?
(a) Saving mortals from peril.
(b) The happiness of mortals.
(c) Holy actions.
(d) Divine service.
4. What does "apology" mean, in the context of the dialogue of that name?
(a) The same as its modern definition.
(b) A plea to the jury for forgiveness.
(c) An explanation for one's behavior.
(d) Socrates' entire defense at his trial.
5. Where was Socrates being prosecuted?
(a) Thrace.
(b) Lyceum.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Athens.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Socrates say about the jurors who convicted him?
2. What was unsettling, to Socrates, about the conversation he had with Euthyphro?
3. Why are the Socratic dialogues still studied, according to Tarrant?
4. Which two figures, in Athenian mythology, are twin siblings?
5. What celestial body is associated with Artemis?
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