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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. Who took the young woman home when she was overcome with emotion?
(a) Plato.
(b) Phaedo.
(c) Crito.
(d) Simmias.

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

3. According to Socrates and his friends, what happens to a soul after it spends some time in the Underworld?
(a) It reemerges as a new mortal.
(b) It ascends to Heaven.
(c) It forgets its previous life.
(d) It is assimilated by the life force of the cosmos.

4. What did Socrates expect when he passed into the Underworld, according to his dialogue with Crito?
(a) He expects to have all his questions answered.
(b) He expects to be judged.
(c) He expects to meet his friends who have passed before him.
(d) He expects to be reborn into another life.

5. When asked how to overcome the difficulty in the debate, what did Socrates suggest?
(a) Accepting defeat graciously.
(b) Giving up.
(c) Assistance.
(d) Getting an impartial observer to decide the winner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Crito?

2. Each theory about the afterlife that is presented by Socrates' friends represents a different conception of what?

3. What did Crito want Socrates to do?

4. What term did the Greeks use to refer to the souls of the departed?

5. What does the term "philosopher" mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is present at Socrates' execution?

2. What realization does Socrates have as a result of his and Phaedo's debate with Simmias and Cebes?

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

4. What does Crito want Socrates to do?

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

6. What is the "transmigration of souls"?

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

8. What do Socrates and Crito say about experts?

9. What conclusion do Socrates and Crito reach regarding the laws of the land?

10. What is the philosophical subject of Book 4?

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