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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 (257-264).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say those in love care most about?
(a) Their image.
(b) Their privacy.
(c) Their lovers.
(d) Themselves.

2. What do Socrates and Phaedras walk by while talking at the beginning of the book?
(a) A mountain.
(b) A river.
(c) A lake.
(d) A common road.

3. What does Socrates say people with unsound minds dislike?
(a) Things that don't involve them.
(b) Thins that help their relationship.
(c) Things that are superior to them.
(d) Things that surprise them.

4. What does Phaedras say makes something debatable?
(a) It can be seen in two different ways.
(b) It is always changing.
(c) It can cause contention.
(d) It is not fully revealed.

5. What does Lysias say the most rewarding relationship consists of?
(a) Two lovers.
(b) A lover and a non lover.
(c) A woman and a man.
(d) Two non lovers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say is addicting at the plane tree by the river?

2. What does Phaedras doubt he can do while walking with Socrates?

3. What becomes contradictory if one is not well versed in a subject of a speech according to Socrates?

4. What does pure beauty inspire the growth of?

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

(see the answer key)

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