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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Socrates reason about Ion?
(a) Ion is sad when his crowds are sad and happy when his crowds are happy.
(b) Ion is a handsome, though misguided poet.
(c) Ion knows more than Socrates.
(d) Ion must be outside his mind when he recites poetry.

2. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
(a) Whether love is necessarily beautiful.
(b) Whether loves is necessarily possible.
(c) How one can know that he is truly in love.
(d) Agathon's poetic license.

3. At whose house does the Symposium take place?
(a) Agathon.
(b) Alcidbides.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Phaedrus.

4. When Socrates meets Ion, Ion has just returned from which of the following?
(a) Socrates' trial.
(b) A game at the Coliseum.
(c) Agathon's drinking party.
(d) A poetry recital contest in Epidarus.

5. According to Socrates' insinuation, artistic knowledge is characterized as which of the following?
(a) Useless.
(b) Universal.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Ironic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ion, Socrates concludes that Ion's ability to memorize poetry is which of the following?

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

3. Ion is renowned for his ability to recite which famous poet?

4. Who gives the last formal speech at the symposium?

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

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