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Classics Exam 2 Questions and answers latest update
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Classics Exam 2 Questions and answerslatest update
In Plato's Republic Bk. 10, how many holes did Er envision altogether in
the heaven and the earth?
-3
-8
-4
-1 - correct answers 4
In Plato's biography of Socrates in Phaedo, what is meant by Socrates'
second sailing?
-his decision to travel to Clazomene to study with Anaxagoras
-his investigation of mind (nous) through the action of air, water, and
ether as the cause of order in the universe
-his decision to investigate a different set of 'human questions' which
came to be the field of ethics
-his teaching imagined as a kind of irresponsible surfing over the heads
of ordinary people - correct answers his decision to investigate a
different set of 'human questions' which came to be the field of ethics
,Which of the following is not one of the challenges posed by Glaucon
and Adeimantus in Plato's Republic Bk. 2?
-That the hypothesis 'justice is returning what is owed' is disproved by
the man who deposits arms when sane and asks for them back when
insane.
-Whether one would choose justice over injustice even if one possessed
the ring of Gyges which assures that perfect criminality will go
unpunished.
-That the perfect criminal can escape justice in the afterlife by sacrifices
and initiation into mystery religions.
-That justice should be stripped of its appearance for goodness and it
be given instead to injustice. - correct answers That the hypothesis
justice is returning what is owed is disproved by the man who deposits
arms when sane and asks for them back when insane
In Plato's Republic Bk. 10, what kind of lot did Odysseus search for?
-A great tyranny, but he must eat his own children
-to fly like an eagle
-the life of a private man who does his own work
-a life in which he may die in a land where the inhabitants do not know
what an oar is. - correct answers the life of a private man who does his
own work
,Once someone has escaped from Plato's cave and sees the sun, how is
he treated when he returns to the cave?
-as a conquering hero and a model to be imitated
-as a god
-as a teacher and philosopher, with awe
-as a madman whom they ridicule and try to kill if they can - correct
answers as a madman whom they ridicule and try to kill if they can
How does Plato's Republic respond to Thucydides' History of the
Peloponnesian War?
-The imagery suggests how the invading Persians were held off at
Thermopylae by a small group of hoplites from Sparta
-The imagery suggests a sea voyage to Syracuse, prisoners in a cave,
and a city in speech just like Pericles' 'Funeral Oration'
-The imagery suggests that Athens fell into tyranny because it did not
follow the advice of Pericles.
-It denigrates democratic principles and has sympathy for tyrants like
Thrasymachus the same way Thucydides liked Cleon and Alcibiades -
correct answers the imagery suggest a sea boyage to Syracuse,
prinsoners in a cave, and a city in speech just like Pericles Funeral
Oration
, What are the first words of Plato's Republic?
-I went down to the Peiraeus yesterday with Glaucon
-Indeed Cephalus, what I enjoy most is talking with men who are really
old
-Take the following parable of education and ignorance as a picture...
-Indeed I have no mighty long tale of Alcinoos - correct answers I went
down to the Periaeus yesterday with Glaucon
What is the meaning of the name 'Socrates'?
-'mighty salvation' like Hercules
-'wide, broad' and also a 'maker of plastic arts / fiction'
-'no man is wiser'
-'war-leader' - correct answers might salvation like Hercules
In Plato's Republic VII, which of the following is NOT part of the
dialectical art?
-It is the inability to rise above the imitation of corrupt examples.
-it is the process of imagining higher more divine principles from things
in our experience and nature.
-It is like the 0s and 1s of computer code in that it is pursued by
answering yes or no to the right sorts of questions in dialogue.
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