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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, line 202a to 208a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What princess does Phaedrus use as an example for a sacrifice made out of Love?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Europe.
(c) Alcestis.
(d) Ariadne.

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

3. As Aristophanes explains, what part of the body is extra skin used to form?
(a) The toes.
(b) The belly button.
(c) The nose.
(d) The fingers.

4. Where does Pausanius think the laws are perplexing?
(a) Therapni.
(b) Leonidio.
(c) Lacedaemon.
(d) Tripoli.

5. How many legs does man have in the beginning, according to Aristophanes?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Eight.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eryximachus describe Polyhymnia?

2. What causes the "man-woman" creatures in Aristophanes' story to become adulterers?

3. How does Diotima think women are helped to give birth?

4. As explained to Socrates by Diotima, what event brings Love's mother and father together?

5. Who interrupts the argument at the end of Part 4?

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