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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 (265-272).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must be linked in order for someone to predict the future?
(a) The perfect and divine.
(b) The needs and the wants.
(c) The future and the past.
(d) The truth and the past.

2. What does Socrates say pure beauty will always involve?
(a) Purity.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Adoration.
(d) Experience.

3. What are Socrates and Phaedras doing when they meet each other at the beginning of the book?
(a) Reading.
(b) Exercising.
(c) Resting.
(d) Waiting.

4. According to Socrates, where do souls learn to deal with their love?
(a) By watching their parents.
(b) By using their impulses.
(c) By following their associated gods.
(d) By following their instincts.

5. What god has the most royal features about them?
(a) Hera.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Eros.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phaedras say a man must know about before delivering a good speech?

2. How did Socrates describe the Delphic women's accomplishments?

3. Which speech does Phaedras think is the superior one?

4. What does Socrates think the only reason to make a speech should be?

5. Who made good predictions when insane?

(see the answer key)

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