Multiple Choice


1	What did Socrates hope to achieve by practicing the Socratic method?
		A)	He hoped to show that knowledge is impossible.
		B)	He wanted to show that a skillful debater could win any side of any argument.
		C)	He wanted to display the fact that he was indeed the wisest man in all Greece.
		D)	He wanted to discover adequate definitions that would give knowledge of the essential nature of things.


2	Where do the Forms exist, according to Plato?
		A)	In our heads, as ideas.
		B)	In physical objects.
		C)	In a separate, immaterial realm.
		D)	In the cave.


3	How are the Forms apprehended, according to Plato?
		A)	By reason.
		B)	By the senses.
		C)	By intuition.
		D)	By mystical experience.


4	Which would Plato have agreed with?
		A)	The senses alone can provide knowledge.
		B)	Physical objects are eternal, perfect, and unchanging.
		C)	Man is the measure of all things.
		D)	The senses are a source of error, illusion, and ignorance.

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