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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, line 214a to 220a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who interrupts the argument at the end of Part 4?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Pausanius.

2. According to Alcibiades, what are Socrates' claims that he knows nothing?
(a) An act.
(b) Sarcasm.
(c) Hypocrisy.
(d) The truth.

3. In Socrates' opinion, what usually happens to the children of people who invent laws?
(a) They are disrespected.
(b) They are remembered.
(c) They are forgotten.
(d) They are respected.

4. As Eryximachus explains, what is harmony composed of?
(a) Only high notes.
(b) Neither high nor low notes.
(c) High and low notes.
(d) Only low notes.

5. Who is Apollodorus talking with at the beginning of Symposium?
(a) Socrates.
(b) A soldier.
(c) Agathon.
(d) A companion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Agathon's opinion, what does love compel people to do?

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

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

5. Why are the speeches between Phaedrus and Pausanias left out of Aristodemus' account?

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