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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What trait does Socrates say most lovers want to see in their partners?
(a) Pride.
(b) Needs.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Agreement.

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

4. What does Socrates think people need to have sympathy towards?
(a) The elderly.
(b) Poverty.
(c) The uneducated.
(d) All of these.

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

6. How does Socrates feel about all the sites that Phaedras takes him to?
(a) He is depressed.
(b) He is enchanted.
(c) He is nonplussed.
(d) He is happy with them.

7. What becomes contradictory if one is not well versed in a subject of a speech according to Socrates?
(a) Conclusions.
(b) Logic.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Interpretations.

8. What kind of relationship does Phaedras think is superior?
(a) Moderated relationships.
(b) Loving relationships.
(c) Homosexual relationships.
(d) Non-loving relationships.

9. Why did Socrates realize he made the speech to Phadras?
(a) To feed his own ego.
(b) In the search for truth.
(c) For the sake of applause.
(d) For the advance of mankind.

10. What does Socrates say causes passion between lovers?
(a) Selfishness.
(b) Grief.
(c) Affection.
(d) Jealousy.

11. What does Phaedras threaten Socrates with?
(a) To end their friendship.
(b) Never to give another speech.
(c) To take credit for his speech.
(d) Never to walk with him again.

12. What does Phaedras doubt he can do while walking with Socrates?
(a) Present the right ideas.
(b) Change Socrates's mind.
(c) Give a good speech.
(d) Give proper credit to Lysias.

13. What does Socrates say people with unsound minds dislike?
(a) Things that are superior to them.
(b) Thins that help their relationship.
(c) Things that surprise them.
(d) Things that don't involve them.

14. What do Socrates and Phaedras talk about when they meet each other at the beginning of the book?
(a) Athletics.
(b) A popular book.
(c) A speech.
(d) Politics.

15. What does Socrates say love is deprived of at the end of his speech?
(a) Guidance.
(b) Inspiration.
(c) All of these.
(d) Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates not want to take Phaedras's advice about his speech?

2. What does Socrates say those in love care most about?

3. What is Acumenus's occupation?

4. What does reason discard when it is in control according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates say he is addicted to at the beginning of the book?

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