SparkNotes: Meno: Quiz

With what question does the Meno begin?

(A) What is virtue?

(B) Can virtue be taught?

(C) Is virtue a kind of knowledge?

(D) Are there many virtues or one?

Where is Meno from?

(A) Sparta

(B) Athens

(C) Eos

(D) Thessaly

Socrates reminds Meno that no virtue is truly beneficial without:

(A) justice

(B) moderation

(C) wisdom

(D) all of the above

Socrates uses which examples to demonstrate the idea of a definition?

(A) shape and color

(B) shape and odor

(C) color and sound

(D) tables and chairs

"What else is being miserable," asks Socrates...

(A) ..."than not to know the truth?"

(B) ..."than to seek virtue and fail to find it?"

(C) ..."than to desire bad things and secure them?"

(D) ..."than to be a sophist?"

What mistake does Socrates eventually reveal in Meno's definition of virtue as the desire for beautiful things and the power to attain them?

(A) This is a list, not a definition.

(B) The definition implicitly contains the term it is to define.

(C) The definition does not correspond to an eidos.

(D) The definition does not cover all cases of virtue.

Why does Meno call Socrates a torpedo fish?

(A) Socrates is quick

(B) Socrates is numbing

(C) Socrates is cold-hearted

(D) Socrates is suspicious

What paradox does Meno raise?

(A) How can one look for what one does not know?

(B) How can those without virtue be elected if democracy is virtuous?

(C) Xeno's paradox

(D) How can virtue be wisdom but not knowledge?

According to Socrates, the soul is:

(A) infinitely large

(B) inherently virtuous

(C) corruptible

(D) immortal

According to Socrates, learning is a kind of:

(A) recollection

(B) virtue

(C) political skill

(D) gift of the gods

Socrates questions Meno's slave about:

(A) the radius of a circle

(B) the height of the Parthenon

(C) the double of a square's area

(D) the golden ratio of a given square

Socrates says that "all that the soul endures, if directed by _____, ends in happiness."

(A) virtue

(B) wisdom

(C) prophets

(D) truth

Socrates reacts to Anytus' disapproval of the Sophists with:

(A) amazement

(B) anger

(C) a rebuke

(D) a theory

Protagoras is used as an example of:

(A) a rich Sophist

(B) a corrupt politician

(C) a gifted priest

(D) a man of true knowledge

Anytus suggests that Meno talk to whom to learn about virtue?

(A) the Sophists

(B) any Athenian on the street

(C) an oracle

(D) Gorgias

Gorgias refuses to say:

(A) that virtue is truth

(B) that Socrates is a bad influence

(C) that he can teach virtue

(D) that he can't teach virtue

How does true opinion relate to knowledge?

(A) It's always inferior.

(B) It's sometimes superior.

(C) They are equally good.

(D) It's inferior in the long run.

According to Socrates' conclusion at the end of the Meno, beneficent statesmen are like:

(A) "soothsayers and prophets"

(B) "oracles and deities"

(C) "Gorgias and Anytus"

(D) "blindfolded children"