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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?
(a) Virtue is different for every person.
(b) Virtue is the unmoved mover of all things.
(c) Virtue, like other abstract notions, resists our best attempts to define it.
(d) Virtue is the desire and power to obtain good things.

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

3. What is a symposium?
(a) A small club of Sophists.
(b) An all- night drinking party where various elite Greeks discuss the meaning of love.
(c) An outdoor gathering of philosophers near a nobleman's residence.
(d) An ancient restaurant.

4. In Ion, Socrates is concerned primarily with which of the following?
(a) Defining virtue by more than just examples of virtue.
(b) Distinguishing how we know things artistically from how we know things inspirationally.
(c) Ion's secret relationship with Agathon.
(d) Proving that Ion is not as smart as he is.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the last person to leave the symposium?

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

3. At whose house does the Symposium take place?

4. Who is Eryximachus?

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

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