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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 (265-272).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does Phaedras use to describe the affect of writing?
(a) All of these.
(b) Beneficial.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Prideful.

2. What does Socrates say calms a soul overcome by desire?
(a) Sexual relations.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Contact with a loved one.
(d) Encouraging words.

3. How does Socrates say Phaedras delivered the speech?
(a) Passionately.
(b) Believably.
(c) Charmingly.
(d) Hesitatingly.

4. What disability did Stesichorus have?
(a) He was schizophrenic.
(b) He was blind.
(c) He was deaf.
(d) He had one leg.

5. What compels Socrates to give a speech of his own?
(a) All of these.
(b) Competition with Lysias.
(c) Phaedras's threat.
(d) The need to teach.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Socrates view the expression Lysias's speech?

2. What is the first elemental part of a good rhetoric speech?

3. What is Socrates embarrassed about when he begins his speech to Phaedras?

4. What does Phaedras say competition allows people to become?

5. Who does Socrates say inspired his second speech?

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