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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. What is the purpose of Aristophanes' speech, as he indicates after it is finished?
(a) Not to make fun of Agathon and Pausanius.
(b) To make fun of Agathon, but not Pausanius.
(c) To make fun of Pausanius, but not Agathon.
(d) To make fun of both Agathon and Pausanius.

2. Who requests that Socrates sit near him at the party?
(a) Eryximachus.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Aristodemus.
(d) Aristophanes.

3. What does Pausanius think is the true test of a love's class?
(a) Past.
(b) Location.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Time.

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

5. According to Eryximachus, how many kinds of love exist in the human body?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) One.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Agathon compare love with other desires?

2. In Eryximachus' opinion, what can the best physician do?

3. How many types of "creatures" does Aristophanes think there were in the beginning of man?

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

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

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