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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 does Eryximachus interpret Heraclitus' words to mean?
(a) Music is the further division of opposites.
(b) Music features only similar factors.
(c) Music features similar and opposite factors.
(d) Music has a reconciliation of opposites.

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

3. What is one of the points that Eryximachus makes with Urania's story?
(a) The avoidance of the intemperate.
(b) The avoidance of the temperate.
(c) The acceptance of the intemperate.
(d) The acceptance of the temperate.

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

5. How is the muse, Urania, described in Eryximachus' speech?
(a) Fair and heavenly.
(b) Fair, but not heavenly.
(c) Neither fair nor heavenly.
(d) Heavenly, but unfair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following is not an example that Eryximachus uses to describe the hostile elements?

2. How does Agathon compare love with other desires?

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

4. On what point do Socrates and Agathon agree?

5. Why is Aristophanes unable to speak in his scheduled turn?

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