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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (235-241).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of things does Socrates say lovers will do to slow down their partner?
(a) Logic.
(b) Past knowledge.
(c) All of these.
(d) Wit.

2. What does Socrates say guides our actions?
(a) Motive.
(b) Impulse.
(c) Love.
(d) Desire.

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

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

5. What does Phedras want from Socrates when he threatens him?
(a) To come to dinner.
(b) To be kind ot Lysias.
(c) To give a speech of his own.
(d) To keep quiet about the speech he read.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates think people need to have sympathy towards?

2. What is Phaedras most concerned about with the speech he reads to Socrates?

3. How does Phaedras feel about Socrates's discussion about relationships?

4. What does Socrates say one must do when dealing with a subject in a speech?

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

(see the answer key)

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