Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Great Dialogues Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Describe Meno's appearance and attitude when he meets Socrates.
(a) Old, thoughtful, and wise.
(b) Middle- aged and curious.
(c) Youthful, though ugly and shy.
(d) Young and handsome though impulsive and arrogant.

2. Who is Eryximachus?
(a) The last speaker and surprise guest at the symposium.
(b) A poet who argues that men and woman were once fused beings.
(c) A doctor who argues that love is like a medicine curing life's ailments.
(d) A philosopher who attacks Pausanias' postion.

3. What is the major point of Aristophanes' speech?
(a) Love is the desire for unity, because man and woman were once a unified being.
(b) Everything eventually dies, so it is pointless to love anything.
(c) Men loving woman is necessarily better than men loving men, because the former allows for procreation.
(d) Love is as complicated and confusing as good poetry.

4. Which of the following does Socrates reason about poetry?
(a) A poem's content cannot belong to the one who recites it.
(b) A poem's content always belongs to the one who recites it.
(c) Poetry was not meant to be read aloud.
(d) If poetry consists of statements which belong to other arts, then such "other arts" are actually one thing.

5. When first asked by Socrates to define virtue, Meno responds with which of the following?
(a) A theoretical ontology with ethical limitations on virtue.
(b) A question, asking Socrates if this is really worth his time.
(c) Examples of virtuous people with different lifestyles.
(d) A vague unassuming definition which is accepted by Socrates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?

2. Socrates claims that he learned about love from which of the following?

3. How does Dimotia characterize love?

4. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?

5. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:

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