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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 were Socrates and his partner debating about at the end of Book 5, Chapter 2?
(a) Justice.
(b) The nature of the human soul.
(c) Immortality.
(d) Knowledge.

2. What is the reason, according to Socrates, for "mislogic"?
(a) People are defeated in logical arguments.
(b) People are more interested in "winning" an argument than in knowing the truth.
(c) People don't understand the limitations of logic.
(d) People don't know how to use logic correctly.

3. What did the Pythagoreans conclude about the nature of matter?
(a) The universe is made up of tiny, invisible particles.
(b) All matter was created at the time of the Big Bang.
(c) Matter is solid.
(d) When matter was destroyed, it disappeared.

4. Why did Socrates insist on going through with his sentence?
(a) It was just for him to do so.
(b) He was in a lot of pain and didn't mind the idea of death.
(c) He wanted to make a point.
(d) He didn't want to endanger any of his friends.

5. Which is the longest of the four dialogues?
(a) The Phaedo.
(b) The Euthyphro.
(c) The Crito.
(d) The Apology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What theory did the Pythagoreans have about the human soul?

3. What did Crito say about how he would be affected, personally, by Socrates' death?

4. What concept does Tarrant label as "Christian," which he says the Greeks did not possess?

5. What was the reason for what happened to Socrates after his trial?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "transmigration of souls"?

2. What is the setting of Book 4?

3. What do Socrates' friends say about suicide, and the preservation of life, in the "Phaedo"?

4. What is the philosophical subject of Book 4?

5. What does Socrates think will happen after his death?

6. What new habit do Socrates' friends discover in the "Phaedo"?

7. What does Tarrant use as an example to illustrate the differences in mentality, in this section, regarding death and suicide?

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

9. What is said, in Book 4, about Socrates' dream?

10. What belief do Socrates' friends discuss in the "Phaedo" that was taught in formal philosophical education, but was not culturally popular?

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