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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, 184a to 190a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the size of the audience that sees Agathon's play?
(a) Less than thirty thousand.
(b) More than thirty thousand.
(c) Forty thousand.
(d) Fifty thousand.

2. Whose thoughts inspire the guests to speak about love at the party?
(a) Pausanias.
(b) Agathon.
(c) Phaedrus.
(d) Aristodemus.

3. As related by Apollodorus, how many years has Agathon not resided at Athens?
(a) Many years.
(b) Agathon still resides in Athens.
(c) Only one year.
(d) Only a few years.

4. According to Phaedrus, which other motive is able to implant as well as Love?
(a) No other motive.
(b) Kindred.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Honor.

5. Which goddess does Pausanius associate with love?
(a) Hera.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Athena.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Eryximachus say about his omission of certain things in his speech?

2. What is Socrates doing while the other guests are eating dinner at Agathon's house?

3. How many kinds of love does Pausanius think there are?

4. How does Eryximachus define symphony?

5. What is the order of the three things in Hesiod's theory, as referenced by Phaedrus?

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