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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. How does Phaedras feel when Socrates starts to explain how to arrange a good speech?
(a) Excited.
(b) Angry.
(c) Annoyed.
(d) Embarrassed.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say the soul retains in its next life?

2. What does Phaedras promise to do if Socrates can change his mind?

3. What does Socrates say people overcome by the desire to love spend their time doing?

4. Which speech does Phaedras think is the superior one?

5. What does Socrates say will help a soul forget bad things?

(see the answer key)

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