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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. Whose thoughts inspire the guests to speak about love at the party?
(a) Pausanias.
(b) Phaedrus.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Aristodemus.

2. In Socrates' speech, how does he describe someone who searches for wisdom?
(a) Wise.
(b) Neither wise nor ignorant.
(c) In between wise and ignorant.
(d) Ignorant.

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

4. What theory of Socrates is revealed at the end of the Symposium?
(a) That writers of tragedy should not write comedy.
(b) That writers of comedy should not write tragedy.
(c) That writers of tragedy can also write comedy.
(d) That writers of tragedy cannot write comedy.

5. Who requests that Socrates sit near him at the party?
(a) Aristodemus.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Agathon.
(d) Eryximachus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What characteristics does love have, according to Agathon?

2. Besides having a child with a woman, how does Socrates think that some men express their "pregnancy"?

3. What does Socrates tell Alcibiades about his political efforts?

4. According to Agathon, what effect does love have on bad things?

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

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