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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Lysias say lovers regret?
2. Why does Socrates say some people seem unsound of mind when they are in love?
3. What does Socrates say about stories with little factual information?
4. What does Socrates define in his speech to Phaedras?
5. What does Socrates think is different about people in the city from people in the country?
Short Essay Questions
1. What idea does Socrates have about city people as opposed to country people?
2. What does Lysias say is the main disadvantage of a relationship between lovers?
3. What does Socrates say souls are striving for, and why?
4. How does Socrates say love affects the physical well being of those in a relationship, and why?
5. Why does Socrates say some men are seen as mad when they are not?
6. What does Socrates say lovers will do to suppress independence in their partner?
7. What does Socrates compare the form of the soul to at the beginning of his second speech?
8. What does Socrates say happens when two lovers live together for an extended period?
9. What does Lysais say are the main benefits in the kind of relationship Lysias has with Phaedras?
10. What is Lysisas's speech about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are Phaedrus's ideas about persuasion, and how does Socrates respond to them?
Essay Topic 2
Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?
Essay Topic 3
Phaedrus changes a lot from the beginning of the book to the end. Please compare and contrast Phaedrus's character at the beginning of the book to Phaedrus's character at the end of the book.
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