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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 is addicting at the plane tree by the river?
(a) The fragrance.
(b) The peace.
(c) The sounds.
(d) The beauty.

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

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

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

5. What does Socrates say people with unsound minds like?
(a) Things that help their relationship.
(b) Things that please their lover.
(c) Things that agree with them.
(d) Things that remind them of their lover.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the man at the beginning of Socrates's speech in love with?

3. What does Socrates say must be arranged correctly in a good speech?

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

5. What is Acumenus's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Socrates say causes most disappointments in loving relationships?

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

3. How does Socrates say love affects the physical well being of those in a relationship, and why?

4. How does Socrates begin his speech to Phaedras?

5. What are Socrates and Phaedras doing at the beginning of the book, and why?

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

7. What does Socrates say souls are striving for, and why?

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

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

10. How are the reborn lives of humans decided according to Socrates?

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