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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Dimotia characterize love?
(a) Curious and enigmatic, like the Gods.
(b) Grounded and rational, like a mathematical equation.
(c) Crude and deceitful, like the desire for immortality.
(d) Beautiful and pure, like virtue or reason.

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

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

3. 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?"

4. What is a symposium?

5. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?

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