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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, line 214a to 220a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What phrase does Socrates use to refer to the practice of learning?
(a) The hypothesis of the changing hypothesis.
(b) The hypothesis of the remembered hypothesis.
(c) The hypothesis of the forgotten hypothesis.
(d) The hypothesis of the higher hypothesis.

2. Who has an argument at the end of Aristophanes' speech?
(a) Socrates and Aristophanes.
(b) Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon.
(c) Socrates and Agathon.
(d) Aristophanes and Agathon.

3. Why do humans walk upright, according to Aristophanes?
(a) They taught themselves to walk upright as a survival instinct.
(b) They were originally created to walk upright.
(c) They were split in half.
(d) They were not as coordinated walking on all fours.

4. As explained by Socrates, which images can the young philosopher understand and reproduce?
(a) Beauty and wisdom, but not virtue.
(b) Virtue, beauty, and wisdom.
(c) Virtue and wisdom, but not beauty.
(d) Virtue and beauty, but not wisdom.

5. According to Agathon, who can love capture?
(a) Ares.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the muse, Urania, described in Eryximachus' speech?

2. How does Diotima think a young person should interact with beautiful minds?

3. Besides having a child with a woman, how does Socrates think that some men express their "pregnancy"?

4. In Pausanius' opinion, how many goddesses of love are there?

5. What are the "statues of Silenus"?

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