This quiz is for my personal use, compiled (verbatim) from questions from tests in my philosophy class. Y'all are free to take it, but be warned, my teacher makes mistakes.
Artists
Poets
Philosophers
Women
They must love their country.
They must be tested in both pleasure and pain.
They must be philosophers.
They must possess a readiness to live an orderly and quiet life.
All of the above apply to the ideal ruler.
Knowledge of the form of the good.
Knowledge of pleasure.
Knowledge of self-control and self-discipline.
Knowledge of justice.
It is the source of all order, harmony, beauty, and intelligibility.
It causes things in the sensible world to exist and sustains them.
It permits the mind to know and understand the forms.
It provides "intellectual light" in the intelligible world.
It can only form opinions and is confused.
It must work harder to understand truth and reality.
It seems to lack intelligence.
Both A and B.
Both A and C.
Knowledge and truth are of equal rank.
Knowledge and truth are ranked higher than the good.
Knowledge and truth are ranked below the good.
Knowledge and truth are the source of the good.
The intelligible world is grounded in sense while the visible world is grounded in opinion.
The intelligible world consists of ideal forms while the visible world consists of physical things.
The intelligible world relies on opinion while the visible world relies on knowledge.
The intelligible world contains shadows and images while the visible world contains reasoning.
It bases its inquiry on assumptions and moves to a conclusion
It proceeds to a first principle based on conclusions.
It moves from assumption to a first principle.
It pursues its inquiry solely by and through the forms themselves.
Truth, kindness, charity, and love.
Knowledge, love, discipline, and loyalty.
Intelligence, reason, belief, illusion
Curiosity, desire, contentment, rationality.
He is better and more fully educated than the rest.
He is better qualified to combine the practice of philosophy and politics.
He is compelled to have some care and responsibility for others.
All of the above.
Both A and B.
To explain blind faith.
To explain man's unwillingness to change.
To explain different realities.
To explain the ascent of the mind from illusion to pure philosophy.
Illusion and false reality.
Government control.
Divine knowledge.
Objective truth.
He is no longer in his comfort zone.
A new reality would be difficult to accept.
The sunlight would hurt the prisoner's eyes.
All of the above.
The prisoners are unwilling to accept different realities.
They feel the returning prisoner is a fool.
They are afraid of change.
All of the above.
The upward progress of the mind into the intelligible region.
A pathway to bliss.
Complete understanding of the world.
The innate capacity for knowledge present in each man's mind.
Paintbrush.
Pen.
Mirror.
Imagination.
He believes that they are imitations of life, which appearances and not realities.
He believes that neither painter nor poet have any knowledge of what they imitate.
He believes that picture and poems tell us nothing about life.
He believes all of the above.
It contains the ultimate truth that man can know.
It is a long way removed from truth and understanding.
It has a solid grasp on reality.
It takes an enlightened mind to truly understand and explain its meaning.
It positively affects one's emotions.
It is far removed from truth and reason.
These artists prey on the natural weaknesses of mankind.
It causes conflict in people.
Hymns to the gods.
Homeric epics.
Lyrical ballads.
Love sonnets.
He hopes to illustrate the difference between classes of people.
He hopes to illustrate the difference between appearance and reality.
He hopes to illustrate further the visible and intelligibly orders of reality.
He hopes to illustrate the four subdivisions of the mind.
It is reached via a philosophical dialectic.
It is reached via contemplation of assumptions.
It is reached via consideration of physical things and their corresponding ideal forms.
It is reached via the dismissal of illusion and false reality.
Physical things.
Shadows and images.
Beliefs and Illusions
All of the above.
The shadows on the wall are illusions.
The shadows are the whole truth.
The shadows are the lowest level of thinking.
The shadows are reflections of the truth.
Men whose lives are impoverished and destitute of personal satisfaction.
Men who hope to snatch some compensation from a political career.
Men who fight for power and cause internal and domestic conflicts.
All of the above
Both A and B