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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prompted Socrates to try this new activity in prison?
(a) Boredom.
(b) The request of a friend.
(c) A desire for his work to be preserved.
(d) A dream.

2. What was the other possibility that Socrates contemplated regarding the afterlife?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Complete annihilation.
(c) Reincarnation.
(d) Eternal damnation.

3. How can a person avoid all disappointment, according to Socrates?
(a) Relying on oneself, rather than others.
(b) Learning more about someone before placing demands on them.
(c) They can't.
(d) Having realistic expectations.

4. What did Crito offer Socrates?
(a) A safe place to escape to.
(b) A more comfortable place to spend his final days.
(c) An overturned sentence.
(d) Money.

5. What did Crito say about Socrates' dream?
(a) He agreed with Socrates' interpretation of it.
(b) He felt that Socrates interpreted it incorrectly.
(c) He didn't think it was significant enough to interpret.
(d) He felt that it was strange and mysterious.

6. What did the Pythagoreans like to explore?
(a) The motivations of the gods.
(b) The spiritual and intellectual characteristics of man.
(c) The physical and scientific causes of things.
(d) The ways in which deity could be found to manifest itself in everyday life.

7. What did Socrates say about the laws of the land during his conversation with Crito?
(a) They both protect and control members of society.
(b) They are just, so it is just to follow them.
(c) They control members of society, but don't do much to protect them.
(d) They are unjust, but must be followed.

8. Who lost control of his emotions at Socrates' execution?
(a) Appollonius.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Crito.
(d) Echecrates.

9. What does "transmigration of souls" mean?
(a) The journey across the River Styx.
(b) The communications from the dead that are received by the living.
(c) Displaced souls that roam the earth.
(d) Some aspects of an individual exist before, during, and after their lifetime.

10. What new activity did Socrates try while in prison?
(a) Singing.
(b) Meditating.
(c) Writing down some of his dialogues.
(d) Writing poetry.

11. Why did Socrates ask Crito to be cautious?
(a) So that the two could determine their own, and one another's, beliefs about what is just.
(b) So that Crito didn't implicate himself.
(c) So that the guards wouldn't overhear them.
(d) So that Socrates' friends didn't discover his escape plot.

12. What metaphor does Tarrant use to describe the different mentalities in the Phaedo?
(a) Two siblings in a rival relationship.
(b) A student and his teacher.
(c) A slave and his master.
(d) A child and his father.

13. How was Socrates executed?
(a) Firing squad.
(b) Drawing and quartering.
(c) Thrown to the lions.
(d) Self-administered hemlock poisoning.

14. What was the relationship, according to Crito and Socrates, between just actions and natural ones?
(a) An action may be just, but not natural.
(b) Natural actions are always just.
(c) Just actions are always natural.
(d) An action may be natural, but unjust.

15. What did Crito say about how he would be affected, personally, by Socrates' death?
(a) He wouldn't be personally affected, but knew several people who would be.
(b) He would be devastated and wasn't sure he could go on living, himself.
(c) He said that his reputation would suffer if he did not attempt to help Socrates.
(d) He would be moved to seek vengeance against those who caused it.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Socrates' dialogue with Crito take place?

2. What happens to energy, according to the Pythagoreans?

3. According to Tarrant, why did Socrates submit so easily to his sentencing?

4. Why did Socrates plead with Crito to listen to his reasoning?

5. Crito and Socrates agreed that what action is always unjust?

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