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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 9, line 220a to line 223d.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are the speeches between Phaedrus and Pausanias left out of Aristodemus' account?
(a) They are incomplete.
(b) He does not think they are worth including.
(c) There are no speeches between Phaedrus and Pausanias.
(d) He does not remember them.

2. What is Apollodorus' old name?
(a) Apollodorus the madman.
(b) Apollodorus the thinker.
(c) Apollodorus the wise man.
(d) Apollodorus the orator.

3. Who does Alcibiades request to listen to the story of his extreme actions with Socrates?
(a) No one.
(b) Only people who do not understand philosophy.
(c) Only people who understand philosophy.
(d) Everyone.

4. What does astronomy inform people of, according to Eryximachus?
(a) When to make sacrifices.
(b) The best ways to make sacrifices.
(c) Why to make sacrifices.
(d) Which sacrifices to make.

5. In Pausanius' view, who is the father of the youngest goddess of love?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Uranus.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Diotima think Love is not a god?

2. Why is Aristophanes unable to speak in his scheduled turn?

3. What complaint does the drunken Alcibiades have at the end of Part 7?

4. In what military campaign do Socrates and Alcibiades participate?

5. What example does Pausanius use in explaining the role of tyranny?

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