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Republic

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Book Summary

Plato Biography

Plato's World
Plato's Early Life
Plato's Growth as a Philosopher
Plato's Academy
Plato's Later Years

About Plato's Republic

Overview
The Socratic Method
The Setting for and the Speakers in the Dialogue

Summary and Analysis by Section

Book I: Section I
Book I: Section II
Book I: Section III
Book I: Section IV
Book II: Section I
Book II: Section II
Book II: Section III
Book III: Section I
Book III: Section II
Book III: Section III
Book IV: Section I
Book IV: Section II
Book IV: Section III
Book V: Section I
Book V: Section II
Book VI: Section I
Book VI: Section II
Book VI: Section III
Book VII: Section I
Book VII: Section II
Book VII: Section III
Book X: Section I
Book X: Section II
Book X: Section III

Character List

Character Analysis

Socrates
Thrasymachus
Adeimantus
Glaucon

Critical Essays

Plato's Flyting
When Plato Was a Child
Leonidas: Portrait of a Spartan

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1:  The main focus of argument in the Republic seeks to determine

a. the origin of man

b. who started the Peloponnesian War

c. the nature of the just life

d. who should be king of Athens
2:  Which of the following is not a cardinal virtue?

a. Courage

b. Temperance

c. Justice

d. Patience
3:  The Greek word hubris means

a. greed

b. fairness

c. love

d. arrogance
4:  A three-part deductive argument is called

a. an analogy

b. a syllogism

c. a triad

d. a parable
5:  Polytheism is

a. an illogical argument

b. the state of overabundance

c. the belief in many gods

d. a type of clothing worn by the Greeks
6:  What does The Analogy of the Divided Line demonstrate?

a. The dimensions of the equator

b. Levels of intellect

c. Levels of social class

d. Divisions of family allegiances
7:  What does the Allegory of the Cave demonstrate?

a. How justice can be exacted

b. How to build prisons

c. How to house the homeless

d. How ignorance may be brought to knowledge
8:  According to Socrates, who would be the best ruler of the ideal state?

a. An autocrat

b. A polytheist

c. A philosopher

d. A tyrant
9:  Which poet does Plato claim to love best?

a. Pindar

b. Aeschylus

c. Sappho

d. Homer
10:  The myth of Er tells

a. the story of Helen

b. the story of Perseus

c. the story of death and reincarnation

d. the story of the founding of Athens
11:  The highest level of intellect is called

a. Unattainable

b. Dialectic

c. Omniscience

d. Eclectic
12:  Of whom has it been said that Plato rationalized into existence three hundred years before his birth?

a. Julius Caesar

b. Copernicus

c. Jesus Christ

d. Karl Marx



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