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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 5, line 196a to 202a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As Agathon explains, where does love bring people together?
(a) Parties.
(b) The battlefield.
(c) Anywhere and everywhere.
(d) Politics.

2. What is Eryximachus' suggestion for the flute-girl?
(a) That she stop playing only when Socrates speaks.
(b) That she continue to play as the guests speak.
(c) That she play for herself or the women.
(d) That she stop playing.

3. According to Socrates, who changes proverbs about Agamemnon and Menelaus?
(a) Plato.
(b) Homer.
(c) Livy.
(d) Plutarch.

4. How does Socrates appear when he meets Aristodemus before going to the party?
(a) Wearing sandals, but not bathed.
(b) Neither bathed nor wearing sandals.
(c) Bathed and in sandals.
(d) Bathed, but not in sandals.

5. What causes the "man-woman" creatures in Aristophanes' story to become adulterers?
(a) Fear.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Anger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Homer describe love's feet in the passage quoted by Agathon?

2. According to Agathon, how does love deal with old age?

3. How does Agathon describe love?

4. Who is Apollodorus talking with at the beginning of Symposium?

5. Where is Socrates before entering Agathon's house?

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