Deck 1: Socrates Part 1: Life and Method

Question 1

Socrates was born in the Greek city-state of Sparta.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Socrates was a conscientious objector ("CO") during the Peloponnesian War.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Chareaphon was the father of Socrates.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Socrates's mother was known as "the Pythia."

Question 5

The Oracle of Delphi was a woman.

Question 6

The Oracle of Delphi was a male priest.

Question 7

Thales was Socrates's teacher.

Question 8

Plato was Socrates's student.

Question 9

Socrates was Plato's teacher.

Question 10

Xenophon was one of Socrates's students.

Question 11

The Pythia was a priestess.

Question 12

The Oracle of Delphi was believed to be channeling the god Jupiter.

Question 13

The Oracle of Delphi told Socrates that he was an ignorant man.

Question 14

An elenchus was a Greek sea snail.

Question 15

According to the text, Socrates is considered the historical founder of critical thinking.

Question 16

As a teenager, Socrates was interested in physics.

Question 17

Socrates did not consider himself a teacher.

Question 18

Socrates' mother was a midwife.

Question 19

The teenage Socrates was what we would call an "egghead."

Question 20

Xanthippe was the wife of Socrates.

Question 21

Socrates won medals for bravery in combat but insisted they be awarded to others instead.

Question 22

Socrates was a war hero.

Question 23

Eleven of Socrates's students wrote memoirs of their conversations with him.

Question 24

Youth were not allowed in the agora.

Question 25

Socrates refused to talk with anyone under the age of 21.

Question 26

Socrates was a life-long bachelor.

Question 27

Socrates had three sons.

Question 28

Spartan soldiers feared Socrates in battle.

Question 29

Socrates made his living as a teacher.

Question 30

Aristophanes presents Socrates in a very favorable light.

Question 31

Socrates believed in God or the gods.

Question 32

Socrates spoke of his daimon.

Question 33

Socrates taught that each person makes up his or her own truth.

Question 34

Socrates wrote no books and led no armies.

Question 35

Plato was the teacher of Socrates.

Question 36

Socrates said that some of his teachers had been women.

Question 37

Socrates is one of the philosophers known as the "Pre-Socratics."

Question 38

Socrates's wife once dumped a bucket of pee on him.

Question 39

The agora was the marketplace in central Athens.

Question 40

One of Socrates's friends was a cobbler.

Question 41

Socrates preferred to associate with the wealthy and powerful.

Question 42

Socrates's friend Simon was a cobbler.

Question 43

Socrates was a cobbler by trade.

Question 44

Socrates was a teenage egghead.

Question 45

Critical thinking may be defined fully as "how to refute false beliefs."

Question 46

The account of truth advanced by Socrates is called the correspondence theory of truth.

Question 47

Thales was Socrates's mother.

Question 48

Socrates was a citizen of Athens.

Question 49

Plato was Socrates's teacher.

Question 50

Socrates said that some of his teachers had been women.

Question 51

Socrates became wealthy by charging a fee for teaching his students.

Question 52

Socrates is the founder of Socrates Café.

Question 53

Socrates was elected President of Athens and served with dignity.

Question 54

Thales is the founder of critical thinking.

Question 55

Socrates had one son, whom he named Plato.

Question 56

All Greek citizens had to serve in the military.

Question 57

One of Socrates's friends was a cobbler.

Question 58

By mid-life, Socrates would have been recognized wherever he went in Athens.

Question 59

Aristophanes wrote a comedy satirizing Socrates.

Question 60

Socrates refused to attend the comedic play that poked fun at him.

Question 61

Socrates wrote a number of famous plays.

Question 62

The Athenians built public theaters holding up to 15,000 people at once.

Question 63

Socrates believed that there are good reasons to believe in a supreme deity

Question 64

Socrates advocated a version of the design argument.

Question 65

Socrates was a good sport when he was made fun of at the theater.

Question 66

Socrates owned a restaurant in downtown Athens called Socrates Café.

Question 67

Truth is defined in the text as whatever you believe.

Question 68

Socrates was born outside the city gates of Athens.

Question 69

Socrates never learned to read or write; he was illiterate all his life.

Question 70

Socrates was religious.

Question 71

Socrates thought of his daimon as a "divine voice."

Question 72

Socrates sued Aristophanes for slander.

Question 73

Socrates practiced what is today called voluntary simplicity.

Question 74

Socrates was a lifelong bachelor.

Question 75

Socrates was born in

A) Persia.
B) Egypt.
C) India
D) Greece.

Question 76

Socrates served in the

A) Persian military.
B) Athenian military.
C) Spartan military.
D) Peace Corps.

Question 77

Plato was

A) a philosopher.
B) a military figure.
C) a poet
D) a sculptor.

Question 78

Sophroniscus was

A) Socrates's sister.
B) Socrates's wife.
C) Socrates's daughter.
D) Socrates's father.

Question 79

Phaenarete was

A) Socrates's mother.
B) Socrates's wife.
C) Socrates's daughter.
D) Socrates's sister.

Question 80

Socrates claimed to be a

A) teacher.
B) writer.
C) midwife of ideas
D) artist.
E) poet.
F) architect.