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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, line 190a to 196a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Socrates appear when he meets Aristodemus before going to the party?
(a) Bathed and in sandals.
(b) Bathed, but not in sandals.
(c) Wearing sandals, but not bathed.
(d) Neither bathed nor wearing sandals.

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

3. How many kinds of love does Pausanius think there are?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

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

5. What is Socrates doing while the other guests are eating dinner at Agathon's house?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Eating.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Working.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Pausanius' opinion, how many goddesses of love are there?

2. What does astronomy inform people of, according to Eryximachus?

3. What are the doors like when Aristodemus reaches Agathon's house?

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

5. What memory does Aristophanes believe humans are supposed to have of their creation?

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