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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. As explained by Socrates, what is the drive for immortality related to?
(a) The changes, but not achievements in a person's life.
(b) Neither the changes nor the achievements in a person's life.
(c) The achievements, but not changes in a person's life.
(d) The changes and achievements in a person's life.

2. What reason does Socrates give for why people fight in wars?
(a) They are really fighting a war within themselves.
(b) They think their names will live on.
(c) They consider the enemy to be evil.
(d) They believe in the causes they fight for.

3. What general definition of Love does Diotima provide?
(a) The desire to have the bad temporarily.
(b) The desire to have neither good nor bad.
(c) The desire to have both good or bad.
(d) The desire to have the good forever.

4. As explained to Socrates by Diotima, what event brings Love's mother and father together?
(a) Aphrodite's birth.
(b) Alcmene's birth.
(c) Artemis' birth.
(d) Athena's birth.

5. In Agathon's opinion, what does love compel people to do?
(a) The wrong thing.
(b) Mostly the wrong thing, but sometimes the right thing.
(c) The right thing.
(d) Mostly the right thing, but sometimes the wrong thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the example Socrates provides, what city's laws are "fathered" by Solon?

2. Why does Socrates object to Alcibiades' idea for a speech?

3. How does Socrates appear when he meets Aristodemus before going to the party?

4. Why do humans walk upright, according to Aristophanes?

5. Who does Socrates refer to as an example of a remembered writer?

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