Quiz 1

Plato, Meno

1. Socrates is dissatisfied with Meno's first answer to the question 'What is virtue?' because it is:
a. the wrong definition.
b. an essential property, not a definition.
c. a list.
d. too vague.

2. Socrates' answer to the 'paradox of inquiry' is that inquiry is worthwhile:
a. even if we know what we are searching for.
b. even if we do not know what we are searching for.
c. if what we are searching for is valuable.
d. if what we are searching for has a single definition.

3. Among other findings, the slave boy example shows that:
a. Socrates can lead the slave boy to the correct answers.
b. the slave boy's master must have taught him geometry.
c. recollection only works with instruction.
d. the slave boy's realizing that he does not know is progress.

4. Socrates cannot answer Meno's initial question 'Is virtue teachable?' because:
a. it is badly stated.
b. he does not know what virtue is.
c. he is ignorant of what teaching is.
d. there are no teachers of virtue.

5. In the closing sections of Meno where Socrates and Meno discuss whether virtue is teachable, Plato understands knowledge as roughly:
a. true opinion.
b. true opinion for a reason.
c. true opinion with an account.
d. true opinion that is recollected.

6. Socratic inquiry assumes that an answer to the 'What is F?' question (e.g., What is virtue?) must:
a. provide a way to pick out Fs.
b. be a single thing.
c. be easily taught.
d. take the form of stating what things are F.