Phaedrus Test | Final Test - Easy

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Phaedrus Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Phaedras say persuasion often does NOT require?
(a) Skill.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Familiarity.
(d) Logic.

2. What does Phaedras say is a common attribute among writers?
(a) Collaboration.
(b) Pride.
(c) Imagination.
(d) Fear.

3. Which speech does Phaedras think is the superior one?
(a) Phaedras's speech.
(b) Lysias's speech.
(c) Socrates's second speech.
(d) Socrates's first speech.

4. What is the most important element of speech for rhetoricians?
(a) Possibilities.
(b) Rigor.
(c) Reason.
(d) Probabilities.

5. What does Phaedras say writing does differently than other professions?
(a) Educate.
(b) Inspire.
(c) Upset.
(d) Create.

6. What does Socrates say can lose an entire audience of a good speech?
(a) The length.
(b) The language.
(c) The tone.
(d) The theme.

7. What word does Phaedras use to describe the affect of writing?
(a) Cruel.
(b) Prideful.
(c) Beneficial.
(d) All of these.

8. What kind of inspiration does Apollo provide?
(a) Mystery.
(b) Love.
(c) Poetic.
(d) Prophetic.

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

10. What kind of particles is beauty able to move?
(a) The particles of desire.
(b) The particles of wisdom.
(c) The particles of passion.
(d) The particles of love.

11. Who wrote about duplicate expression?
(a) Polus.
(b) Pollot.
(c) Pilot.
(d) Pollack.

12. What do the Muses use to inspire humans?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Madness.
(c) All of these.
(d) Music.

13. What kind of feelings does Socrates say true beauty can inspire?
(a) Joy and relief.
(b) Rest and relaxation.
(c) Pleasure and pain.
(d) Desire and impulse.

14. What does Socrates thinks madness frees men from?
(a) Their onward course.
(b) Their preconceived notions.
(c) Their unhappiness.
(d) Their usual way of life.

15. What does Socrates say all desires lead to if allowed?
(a) Destruction.
(b) Danger.
(c) Delivery.
(d) Demands.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is involved in the synthesis method of analysis?

2. When does a soul overcome by desire become frantic?

3. What two things does Socrates say pleasures can be?

4. What does Socrates say rhetoric must have to be considered art?

5. What kind of inspiration does Aphrodite provide?

(see the answer keys)

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