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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. In what area of thought did the Pythagorean school excel?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Music.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) All answers are correct.

2. What did Crito want Socrates to do?
(a) Spend time with his family before his death.
(b) Attempt to escape from prison.
(c) Appeal his sentence before it was too late.
(d) Make peace with his relatives.

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

4. What is the term for realizing that one's expectations are too high?
(a) Disillusionment.
(b) Dystopia.
(c) Disgruntled.
(d) Dysphasia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Crito say about Socrates' dream?

2. Who was the young woman at Socrates' execution?

3. According to Tarrant, what parts of a person did the Greeks believe persisted through death?

4. What is "mislogic", according to Socrates?

5. What did Socrates and his partner realize, via their debate with their friends, about the nature of truth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the setting of the Phaedo?

2. How does Crito attempt to persuade Socrates?

3. What evidence led Plato and the Pythagoreans to the theory of an eternal soul?

4. What does Socrates say about misanthropy and "mislogic"?

5. What is the philosophical subject of Book 4?

6. What is the "transmigration of souls"?

7. What were the ancient Greeks' beliefs regarding the afterlife?

8. What was the Pythagorean school of thought?

9. What do Socrates and Crito say about experts?

10. Who is present at Socrates' execution?

(see the answer keys)

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