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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Symposium.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Homer.

2. How does Meno respond to Socrates' question: "Do bees differ as bees, because there are many different kinds of them; or, are they not rather to be distinguished by some other quality, as for example beauty, size, or shape?"
(a) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
(b) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(c) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(d) "I don't understand your question."

3. When Meno arrives in Athens, who is accompanying him?
(a) Nobody, he is alone.
(b) His wife.
(c) A small militia unit.
(d) A large group of slaves.

4. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?
(a) Alcibides.
(b) Meno.
(c) Plato.
(d) Diotima.

5. How does Socrates rebut the definition of virtue offered by the poets?
(a) By showing Meno that all men desire good things, but that not all men are virtuous.
(b) By giving Meno a solid definition of virtue.
(c) By instructing Meno that it is impossible to have an abstract entity which moves other things but does not move itself.
(d) By proving to Meno that there are many commonly held virtues.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Ion admits to Socrates that he can only recite one poet's work well, Socrates is puzzled by which of the following?

2. Who is Eryximachus?

3. At whose house does the Symposium take place?

4. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?

5. In Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?

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