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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 7, line 208a to 214a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eryximachus describe Pausanias' speech?
(a) A lame beginning with a fair ending.
(b) A fair beginning with a lame ending.
(c) A fair beginning with a fair ending.
(d) A lame beginning with a lame ending.

2. How does Eryximachus define astronomy?
(a) The study of the stars and their agreement with love.
(b) The study of how the stars affect love.
(c) The study of the stars and their opposition to love.
(d) The study of how love orders the stars.

3. What does Eryximachus say about his omission of certain things in his speech?
(a) It is intentional.
(b) It is not intentional.
(c) He cannot remember any more.
(d) He maintains that he did not leave anything out.

4. What is the "art" that Eryximachus refers to as the inspiration for the ideas in his speech?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Prose.
(c) Sculpture.
(d) Painting.

5. What phrase does Socrates use to refer to the practice of learning?
(a) The hypothesis of the changing hypothesis.
(b) The hypothesis of the higher hypothesis.
(c) The hypothesis of the remembered hypothesis.
(d) The hypothesis of the forgotten hypothesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides having a child with a woman, how does Socrates think that some men express their "pregnancy"?

2. What was Eryximachus' ancestor, Asclepius, an expert in?

3. In Eryximachus' opinion, what is education in musical terms?

4. According to Socrates, what is the lover directed towards?

5. How is the muse, Urania, described in Eryximachus' speech?

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