Full Test Bank Socrates An Examined Life Ch3

Chapter 3: Socrates: An Examined Life

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 01

1) Socrates was said to have been physically __________ and personally __________.

a. attractive; dogmatic

b. unattractive; charismatic

c. fit; professional

d. decrepit; boring

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 02

2) Unlike most philosophers before him, Socrates focused on __________.

a. explaining natural phenomena

b. examining people’s core beliefs and moral thinking

c. logic

d. cosmological speculation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 03

3) According to Socrates, nothing is more important in life than __________.

a. pleasure and the absence of pain

b. care of the body

c. speaking well

d. care of the soul

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 04

4) Socrates asked his interlocutors for __________.

a. explanations of the natural world

b. speculative theories on the heavens

c. definitions of ethical terms

d. well-reasoned political positions

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 05

5) Socrates’s method of philosophy most often begins with a __________.

a. logical paradox

b. riddle

c. question about the meaning of a concept

d. religious controversy

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 06

6) The reductio ad absurdum is a type of __________.

a. reason

b. argument

c. lecture

d. experiment

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 07

7) Socrates was branded a(n) __________ by many of his contemporaries, including the playwright Aristophanes.

a. demagogue

b. sophist

c. anarchist

d. relativist

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 08

8) Socrates claimed he did not accept __________ for teaching.

a. clothing

b. dinner invitations

c. political appointments

d. money

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 09

9) Socrates equated virtue with __________.

a. knowledge

b. belief

c. faith

d. power

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 10

10) According to Socrates, a preoccupation with __________ is a clear indication that one’s soul is unhealthy.

a. nature

b. social status

c. virtue

d. knowledge

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 11

11) The reductio ad absurdum shows an assumption to be __________.

a. true

b. false

c. certain

d. tenuous

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 12

12) Socrates is concerned with __________.

a. the state of one’s family affairs

b. the state of one’s soul

c. one’s political status

d. one’s social status

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 13

13) At his trial, Socrates refuses to cease __________ even on pain of death.

a. speaking

b. cross-examining Meletus

c. searching for a political solution to his problem

d. philosophizing

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 14

14) The Oracle at Delphi declared no one was __________ than Socrates.

a. more ignorant

b. smarter

c. wiser

d. a better philosopher

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 15

15) In the Apology, Socrates declares __________.

a. “I am indeed the wisest man who ever lived”

b. “I apologize for corrupting the youth”

c. “The Sophists are best suited to improve the youth of Athens”

d. “The unexamined life is not worth living”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 16

16) Socrates asks the Athenian jury to __________.

a. listen to his words and arguments

b. take pity on his wife and children

c. spare his life

d. let him leave Athens

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 17

17) At his trial, Socrates declares that he will __________.

a. stop philosophizing

b. engage in Athenian politics

c. not stop philosophizing

d. take care of his family

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 18

18) Socrates professes __________.

a. truth

b. wisdom

c. knowledge

d. ignorance

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 19

19) Sophists were __________.

a. public servants

b. poets

c. itinerant professors

d. religious prophets

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 20

20) For Socrates, an unexamined life is a tragedy because it results in grievous harm to the __________.

a. state

b. justice system

c. body

d. soul

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 21

21) For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of __________.

a. knowledge

b. wealth

c. community

d. courage

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 22

22) A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically scrutinized to uncover the truth is known as __________.

a. an argument

b. the Socratic method

c. the Socratic jest

d. a debate

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 23

23) If you assume that a set of statements is true, and yet you can deduce a false or absurd statement from it, then the original set of statements as a whole must be false. This kind of argument is known as __________.

a. modus tollens

b. modus ponens

c. hypothetical syllogism

d. reductio ad absurdum

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 24

24) According to Socrates, the pursuit of __________ to the exclusion of all else is a clear sign of __________.

a. philosophical ambition; arrogance

b. worldly wisdom; sophistry

c. godliness; hubris

d. wealth and power; an unhealthy soul

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 25

25) For Socrates the good of the soul is attained only through an uncompromising search for __________.

a. scientific laws

b. what’s true and real

c. a theory of everything

d. what’s physically necessary

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 26

26) At his death, Socrates asks his friend Crito to __________.

a. clear his name

b. take revenge on his accusers

c. pay a debt

d. take care of his family

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 27

27) At his trial, Socrates cross-examines __________.

a. Anytus

b. Plato

c. Meletus

d. Crito

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 28

28) Socrates made many enemies throughout Athens by __________.

a. refusing to engage in military service

b. showing that people were not as wise as they thought

c. making too much money from his teaching

d. deliberately insulting people

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 29

29) Socrates claims to be a __________ for Athens’s sake.

a. gadfly

b. stingray

c. vulture

d. lion

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 03 Question 30

30) Socrates claims that __________ is not to be feared.

a. an unhealthy soul

b. death

c. prosecution

d. imprisonment

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 31

31) Socrates influenced Plato and Aristotle through his grand metaphysical systems and many written works.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 32

32) Socrates thinks that the primary occupation of a good citizen should be the pursuit of wealth and prestige.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 33

33) According to Socrates, in doing anything we should always consider whether it is right or wrong.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 34

34) According to Socrates, nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 35

35) At his trial, Socrates’s cross-examination shows that Meletus’s position is inconsistent.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 36

36) Socrates’s interest in the well-being of the soul informs his method.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 37

37) Socrates admits he corrupts the youth.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 38

38) Socrates immediately accepts the Oracle’s pronouncement that no one in Athens is wiser than he.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 39

39) Socrates accepts the charges against him, but uses the trial as an opportunity to explain how they came about.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 40

40) Socrates continues to philosophize even while awaiting his execution.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 41

41) Socrates holds that knowing the virtues means having them.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 42

42) Socrates believes that people pursue the good if they know what it is.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 43

43) Socrates is a committed Sophist.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 44

44) The Socratic method often takes the form of reductio ad absurdum.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 45

45) Socrates advocates moral relativism.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 46

46) Socrates endorses the idea that society should determine virtue.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 47

47) Socrates often demonstrates that people who think themselves wise really are not.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 48

48) Socrates is more concerned with his social standing than with philosophy.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 49

49) Socrates is primarily interested in questions about politics.

a. True

b. False

Type: true-false

Title: Chapter 03 Question 50

50) Socrates admits he is an atheist.

a. True

b. False