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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Symposium.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. 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 should say that bees must differ from one another, as bees."
(b) "I don't understand your question."
(c) "I should answer that bees do not differ from one another, as bees."
(d) "They're just bees. Who cares?"
2. Who gives the first speech at the symposium?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Phaedrus.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Eryximachus.
3. Who is Eryximachus?
(a) A philosopher who attacks Pausanias' postion.
(b) A poet who argues that men and woman were once fused beings.
(c) The last speaker and surprise guest at the symposium.
(d) A doctor who argues that love is like a medicine curing life's ailments.
4. To illustrate one facet of his argument, Socrates employs the help of which character?
(a) Meno's wife.
(b) Plato to clarify Socrates' words for a perplexed Meno.
(c) A nearby guard who speaks about virtuous people he knows.
(d) A nearby slave boy to whom he teaches simple geometry.
5. To understand Ion's poetically inspired spirit, Socrates employs a metaphor of which of the following?
(a) A dying animal to explain how the sole individual is part of a significant collective.
(b) An eye attempting to see itself, explaining how our mental visions are limited by the bounds of our brain.
(c) A magnet to explain how a poet's inspiration moves from the muse to the audience.
(d) A newly born start to explain how small and insignificant our world is in the greater picture.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Socrates tell Ion about a person who can recite poetry well?
2. What definition of virtue do Meno and Socrates borrow from "the poets"?
3. In the dialogue, Meno blames the confusion in his speech on which of the following?
4. Before Socrates delivers his speech, he cross- examines Agathon about which of the following?
5. When first asked by Socrates to define virtue, Meno responds with which of the following?
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