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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. Who has an argument at the end of Aristophanes' speech?
(a) Socrates and Agathon.
(b) Aristophanes and Agathon.
(c) Socrates and Aristophanes.
(d) Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon.

2. Why do humans walk upright, according to Aristophanes?
(a) They were not as coordinated walking on all fours.
(b) They were split in half.
(c) They taught themselves to walk upright as a survival instinct.
(d) They were originally created to walk upright.

3. According to Socrates, what is the lover directed towards?
(a) What he or she will never understand.
(b) What he or she does not have.
(c) What he or she does not understand.
(d) What he or she already has.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which country does Pausanius use as an example of barbarian laws?

2. Besides Apollodorus, to whom else has Aristodemus recounted the events of the party?

3. How many legs does man have in the beginning, according to Aristophanes?

4. As Pausanius explains, who is the oldest goddess of love's father?

5. According to Phaedrus' story, how could Achilles have avoided death?

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