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. Who is Eryximachus?
(a) A philosopher who attacks Pausanias' postion.
(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) The last speaker and surprise guest at the symposium.

2. Socrates concludes which of the following about virtue?
(a) If it manifests differently in different people, than it cannot have one definition.
(b) It cannot be taught and is therefore not knowledge.
(c) If it can be taught then it is knowledge.
(d) If it is the same in everyone, then we should be able to define it.

3. In Ion, Socrates compares Ion to which of the following?
(a) Musicians.
(b) Religious prophets.
(c) Plato.
(d) Greek artists and sculptors.

4. When he first meets Socrates, Meno asks the following question:
(a) How do we know if what we are seeing in the physical world actually exists?
(b) Is virtue taught, or is it inherent to good people?
(c) Is justice necessarily a good thing?
(d) Where he can learn how to be a philosopher?

5. 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 don't understand your question."
(b) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
(c) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(d) "I should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."

Short Answer Questions

1. At whose house does the Symposium take place?

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

3. Who is the character who narrates Symposium?

4. One large theme that permeates throughout Meno is:

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

(see the answer key)

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