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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many times has Alcibiades invited Socrates over for dinner?
(a) Too many to count.
(b) Three times.
(c) Twice.
(d) Once.
2. What has Socrates caused Alcibiades to realize?
(a) That others do not approve of his lifestyle.
(b) That he needs to change his lifestyle.
(c) That he should not change his lifestyle.
(d) That no one is aware of his lifestyle.
3. As explained by Socrates, is love ugly or beautiful?
(a) It is mostly ugly.
(b) It is mostly beautiful.
(c) It is neither ugly nor beautiful.
(d) It is somewhere between ugly and beautiful.
4. What reason does Socrates give for why people fight in wars?
(a) They believe in the causes they fight for.
(b) They are really fighting a war within themselves.
(c) They think their names will live on.
(d) They consider the enemy to be evil.
5. What phrase does Socrates use to refer to the practice of learning?
(a) The hypothesis of the higher hypothesis.
(b) The hypothesis of the forgotten hypothesis.
(c) The hypothesis of the remembered hypothesis.
(d) The hypothesis of the changing hypothesis.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which one of the following is not included in Diotima's list of things that spirits help with?
2. How does Diotima think a young person should interact with beautiful minds?
3. For what does Socrates give Agathon credit?
4. What does Alcibiades assure Socrates of before he begins speaking?
5. In Diotima's opinion, what is the confusing point of Love?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Socrates believe that love cannot be beautiful or ugly, and what analogy does he use?
2. What examples does Socrates provide of what men can leave behind?
3. What suggestion does Alcibiades make, why does Socrates object to it, and how does Alcibiades convince him to allow it?
4. What does Socrates think the function of love is?
5. How does Agathon describe love?
6. What is the purpose of the questions that Socrates asks Agathon at the beginning of his speech and on what point do they agree?
7. As explained by Socrates, what is the confusing part of love and what are some of the different kinds of love that exist?
8. How can men become "pregnant," according to Socrates?
9. What does love have the power to do, according to Agathon?
10. Why does Socrates think that love is a spirit?
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