The Republic Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Republic? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Who said: "See human beings as though they were in an underground cave-like dwelling with its entrance, a long one, open to the light across the whole width of the cave"?


Socrates
Cephalus
Glaucon
Adeimantus
Q. Who said: "Socrates, you don't come down to us in the Piraeus very often, yet you ought"?


Thrasymachus
Polemarchus
Cephalus
Adeimantus
Q. Who said: "Either prove stronger than these men, or stay here"?


Socrates
Thrasymachus
Glaucon
Polemarchus
Q. Who said: "...you know [your nurse] neglects your sniveling nose and doesn't give it the wiping you need, since it's her fault you do not even recognize sheep or shepherd"?


Adeimantus
Thrasymachus
Polemarchus
Cephalus
Q. Who said: "Now while he was sitting with the others, he chanced to turn the collet of the ring to himself, toward the inside of his hand; when he did this, he became invisible..."?


Glaucon
Socrates
Adeimantus
Thrasymachus