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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (242-248).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Eros's mother?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Megura.
(c) Diana.
(d) Venus.

2. What does Socrates say people overcome by the desire to love spend their time doing?
(a) Fulfilling personal gratification.
(b) Pleasing the one they love.
(c) Feeding sexual desires.
(d) Pleasing themselves.

3. What do Socrates and Phaedras walk by while talking at the beginning of the book?
(a) A common road.
(b) A mountain.
(c) A lake.
(d) A river.

4. What does Socrates say those in love care most about?
(a) Their privacy.
(b) Their image.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their lovers.

5. What does Socrates say guides desire?
(a) Reason and emotion.
(b) Nature and heredity.
(c) Happiness and torture.
(d) Stability and progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Socrates feel about all the sites that Phaedras takes him to?

2. What does Socrates say people with unsound minds dislike?

3. What does Socrates think is different about people in the city from people in the country?

4. What does Socrates say leads to isolation in loving relationships?

5. What subject does Socrates say is the most pertinent?

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