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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. What part of Agathon's speech does Socrates compliment?
(a) The beginning.
(b) None of it.
(c) The ending.
(d) The middle.

2. How does Agathon describe love?
(a) The weakest of the gods.
(b) The youngest of the gods.
(c) The strongest of the gods.
(d) The eldest of the gods.

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

4. What was Eryximachus' ancestor, Asclepius, an expert in?
(a) Husbandry, but not gymnastic.
(b) Gymnastic and husbandry.
(c) Neither gymnastic nor husbandry.
(d) Gymnastic, but not husbandry.

5. Who does Socrates refer to as an example of a remembered writer?
(a) Homer.
(b) Aesop.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Euripides.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Agathon's opinion, how does love win?

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

3. As Agathon explains, where does love bring people together?

4. What statement about music does Eryximachus think is absurd?

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

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