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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Socrates say inspired his second speech?
(a) Eros.
(b) Himera.
(c) Stesichorus.
(d) Diana.

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

4. What are Socrates and Phaedras doing when they meet each other at the beginning of the book?
(a) Resting.
(b) Exercising.
(c) Reading.
(d) Waiting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lysias say will be present in a prudent relationship?

2. How does Phaedras feel when Socrates starts to explain how to arrange a good speech?

3. What does Socrates call the force of an uncontrolled desire for love?

4. What does reason discard when it is in control according to Socrates?

5. What does Socrates think is different about people in the city from people in the country?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when muses involve themselves in madness, according to Socrates?

2. What does Socrates say is the defining feature of gods are?

3. What does Phaedras say is the danger in love overcoming emotion?

4. What idea does Socrates have about city people as opposed to country people?

5. What is Socrates's opinion of Lysias's speech?

6. What is Lysisas's speech about?

7. How does Socrates begin his speech to Phaedras?

8. What does Phaedras say to get Socrates to deliver a speech of his own?

9. What does Lysais say are the main benefits in the kind of relationship Lysias has with Phaedras?

10. What does Socrates compare the form of the soul to at the beginning of his second speech?

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