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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 (248-256).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say people overcome by the desire to love spend their time doing?
(a) Pleasing themselves.
(b) Feeding sexual desires.
(c) Pleasing the one they love.
(d) Fulfilling personal gratification.

2. What does Socrates say love is deprived of at the end of his speech?
(a) Guidance.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) All of these.
(d) Inspiration.

3. What does Socrates say guides desire?
(a) Happiness and torture.
(b) Stability and progress.
(c) Nature and heredity.
(d) Reason and emotion.

4. Which god gets violent when in love?
(a) Venus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

5. What do Socrates and Phaedras talk about when they meet each other at the beginning of the book?
(a) Politics.
(b) Athletics.
(c) A speech.
(d) A popular book.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who made good predictions when insane?

2. What does Socrates say the black horse of the chariot represents?

3. What does Socrates say about stories with little factual information?

4. What trait does Socrates say most lovers want to see in their partners?

5. Who took a nymph from the stream of Illissus?

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