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

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

3. How does Pausanius describe the countries of Elis and Boeotia?
(a) Having eloquence, but no gifts.
(b) Having gifts, but no eloquence.
(c) Having both eloquence and gifts.
(d) Having no gifts or eloquence.

4. In Eryximachus' opinion, what can the best physician do?
(a) Ignore love's existence.
(b) Analyze the different forms of love.
(c) Separate the different forms of love.
(d) Appreciate the different forms of love.

5. What is one of the points that Eryximachus makes with Urania's story?
(a) The avoidance of the temperate.
(b) The acceptance of the temperate.
(c) The acceptance of the intemperate.
(d) The avoidance of the intemperate.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Aristophanes, why do the "double-man" or "double-woman" creatures marry?

2. How many kinds of Love are there, according to Diotima?

3. How many years has Apollodorus been talking with Socrates?

4. As explained by Phaedrus, how does Orpheus die as a result of his cowardice?

5. As Agathon explains, where does love bring people together?

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