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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives the last formal speech at the symposium?
(a) Pausanias.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Appolodorus.
(d) Socrates.

2. 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 proving to Meno that there are many commonly held virtues.
(c) By instructing Meno that it is impossible to have an abstract entity which moves other things but does not move itself.
(d) By giving Meno a solid definition of virtue.

3. Who is the character who narrates Symposium?
(a) Agathon.
(b) Appolodorus.
(c) Alcibides.
(d) Socrates.

4. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?
(a) A nearby slave boy to whom he teaches simple geometry.
(b) Meno's wife.
(c) Plato to clarify Socrates' words for a perplexed Meno.
(d) A nearby guard who speaks about virtuous people he knows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?

2. Who said the following: "may not the art of which neither teachers nor disciples exist be assumed to be incapable of being taught?"

3. Who is the surprise visitor to the symposium, and why does he come?

4. At whose house does the Symposium take place?

5. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?

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