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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 (242-248).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What must be linked in order for someone to predict the future?
(a) The truth and the past.
(b) The future and the past.
(c) The needs and the wants.
(d) The perfect and divine.

2. What does Phaedras think about repetition in speech?
(a) It is common.
(b) It is necessary.
(c) All of these
(d) It is beneficial.

3. How did Stesichorus receive his disability?
(a) He ignored the truth in his poems.
(b) He was punished for a crime.
(c) He offended the gods.
(d) He was caught in a horrible storm.

4. What does reason discard when it is in control according to Socrates?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Desire.
(c) Needs.
(d) Love.

5. What does Socrates say mania is a part of in his second speech?
(a) Redeeming the dead.
(b) Creating a future.
(c) Annointing the past.
(d) Striving for perfection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lysias's occupation?

2. What does Socrates say those in love care most about?

3. What does Phaedras appreciate about Socrates's statement about relationships?

4. What does Socrates think the only reason to make a speech should be?

5. What does Socrates say love is deprived of at the end of his speech?

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