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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. How does Socrates feel about Lysias's statement about prudent relationships?
(a) He is amused.
(b) He is skeptical.
(c) He thinks it is rediculous.
(d) He is in full agreement.

2. What subject does Socrates say is the most pertinent?
(a) Study of history.
(b) Study of language.
(c) Study in agriculture.
(d) Study of oneself.

3. What does Socrates think people need to have sympathy towards?
(a) All of these.
(b) The uneducated.
(c) The elderly.
(d) Poverty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lysias say lovers regret?

2. What does lack of control in desires lead to according to Socrates?

3. What do Socrates and Phaedras talk about when they meet each other at the beginning of the book?

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

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

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