Deck 4: The Wise Man: Socrates

Question 1

Socrates wrote the Symposium .

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Socrates was a pagan.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Socrates was expected to defend Athens as a hoplite.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Plato claimed that Socrates wrote a hymn to Apollo.

Question 5

Plato wrote the Memorabilia .

Question 6

Socrates had only one coat.

Question 7

Socrates guiding motto was Do as you would be done by .

Question 8

Socrates referred to himself as a gadfly.

Question 9

Socrates wrote nothing philosophical.

Question 10

Socrates was paid for teaching.

Question 11

Socrates used a dialectical method of questioning.

Question 12

Socrates talked about incontinence.

Question 13

Jaspers referred to paradigmatic individuals.

Question 14

Socrates held that to have no wants was divine.

Question 15

For Socrates, it was important to engage with others.

Question 16

Socrates was handsome.

Question 17

We know of Socrates only from Plato.

Question 18

Socrates was executed by Athens.

Question 19

Socrates was unmarried.

Question 20

Socrates held that happiness was a matter of inner qualities.

Question 21

Socrates described himself as

A) a fisher of men
B) a fisher of souls
C) a physician of men
D) a physician of souls

Question 22

What did Socrates claim virtue was?

A) Love
B) Habit
C) Trust
D) Wisdom

Question 23

Thrasymachus held that the values of a society reflected the interests of the strong.

Question 24

What does no one knowingly do?

A) Harm to others
B) Evil
C) Good
D) Good to others

Question 25

Who said that to lead a worthless life was an evil?

A) Socrates
B) Diogenes
C) Aristotle
D) Lao-tzu

Question 26

Egoism emphasizes

A) Beliefs
B) Emotions
C) Others
D) Desires

Question 27

Alcibiades said that he would almost be happy to learn that Socrates was dead.

Question 28

The claim that behavior is always controlled by belief about what is good and the means to that good is

A) Techne
B) Akrasia
C) Intellectualism
D) Dualism

Question 29

There were similarities between the thought of Socrates and Buddha.

Question 30

Socrates never used irony.

Question 31

The Oracle at Delphi said that no man was wiser than Plato.

Question 32

Socrates was charged with rejecting the gods acknowledged by Rome.

Question 33

Polydamas was an athlete.

Question 34

Techne is from the Greek for

A) Art
B) Possibility
C) Soul
D) Causation

Question 35

Socrates denied that humans have souls.

Question 36

Who wrote the Gorgias ?

A) Plato
B) Aristotle
C) Cicero
D) Lao-tzu

Question 37

Alcibiades disliked Socrates.

Question 38

Socrates believed he was ignorant.

Question 39

What did Socrates think we are?

A) Our souls
B) Our words
C) Our actions
D) Our society

Question 40

Who said that to pretend to know what you do not know is a disease?

A) Socrates
B) Buddha
C) Lao-tzu
D) Aristotle

Question 41

What did jurors use to vote with in ancient Athens?

A) Bronze disks
B) Bronze tablets
C) Iron pyrites
D) Iron rings

Question 42

To whom was Socrates married?

A) Octavia
B) Zenophon
C) Xanthippe
D) Cleanthes

Question 43

To whom did Socrates owe a cock?

A) Asclepius
B) Crito
C) Cicero
D) Alcibiades

Question 44

How many members were on the Athenian Committee?

A) 30
B) 100
C) 300
D) 500

Question 45

At which battle was Socrates the last Athenian to give way?

A) Thrace
B) Bull Run
C) Delium
D) Hollin

Question 46

What did Socrates ask for when he prayed?

A) Wisdom
B) Good gifts
C) Beauty
D) Fortune

Question 47

What did Socrates think should determine beauty?

A) Usefulness
B) Attractiveness
C) Intellectual appeal
D) Sexual appeal

Question 48

Who claimed that status and riches would come at the expense of one s integrity?

A) Lao-tzu
B) Plato
C) Socrates
D) Lie Zi

Question 49

How many sons did Socrates have?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 50

Socrates was poisoned by

A) conine
B) cocaine
C) heroin
D) cyanide

Question 51

Who said that he found the men in most repute to be the most foolish?

A) Lao-te
B) Socrates
C) Plato
D) Marx

Question 52

Do you think that Socrates approach would work really to change a society, or not? Explain your answer. Do you think that this was his aim? If so, why? If not, what was his aim?

Question 53

Do you believe that Socrates is admirable because he died for his ideals? Is it always admirable to die for one s ideals? What if one s ideals are foolish, or evil?

Question 54

John Milton had his poetic Satan state Evil, be thou my good . How would Socrates respond to this? Explain your answer.

Question 55

How many parts did an Athenian trial consist of?

A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4

Question 56

Do you believe that Socrates could be blamed for neglecting his family? Why, or why not?

Question 57

Who used Buddha and Jesus as examples of paradigmatic individuals?

A) Marx
B) Jaspers
C) Mill
D) Frankl

Question 58

Who said that one ought not to talk as though he were asleep?

A) Herod
B) Hesiod
C) Heraclitus
D) Socrates

Question 59

Do you believe that Socrates had a duty to die? Why, or why not? Do you think that you have a duty to obey the State? Explain your answer.

Question 60

Who challenged Socrates to a beauty contest?

A) Plato
B) Crito
C) Critobulus
D) Pseudo-Plato

Question 61

Do you agree with Socrates account of beauty? Explain your answer.

Question 62

Do you believe that Socrates insistence on his principles was a form of vanity? Explain your answer.

Question 63

What do you think the strengths and weaknesses of the Socratic method are? Would you like to have Socrates as a teacher? Why, or why not?