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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who has an argument at the end of Aristophanes' speech?
(a) Aristophanes and Agathon.
(b) Socrates and Agathon.
(c) Socrates and Aristophanes.
(d) Socrates, Aristophanes, and Agathon.

2. What effect does Phaedrus think Love has on a coward?
(a) It has no effect on a coward.
(b) It causes a coward to think about his or her actions.
(c) It inspires a coward to become a hero.
(d) It causes a coward to become even more afraid.

3. How does Socrates respond to the idea of speaking about love?
(a) He agrees, but adds that he does not know much about it.
(b) He disagrees, because it is a subject that he does not know much about.
(c) He agrees, adding that it is a subject that he knows about.
(d) He disagrees, although it is a subject that he knows about.

4. Where does Phaedrus think that Achilles was sent after his death?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Tenedos.
(c) The Islands of the Blest.
(d) Ionian Islands.

5. How does Eryximachus describe Polyhymnia?
(a) Manipulative.
(b) Cunning.
(c) Vulgar.
(d) Misunderstood.

6. What does Eryximachus interpret Heraclitus' words to mean?
(a) Music features only similar factors.
(b) Music has a reconciliation of opposites.
(c) Music is the further division of opposites.
(d) Music features similar and opposite factors.

7. What does Eryximachus believe to be the source of pestilence and destruction in nature?
(a) When a season refuses to change on time.
(b) When a season is overtaken by untested love.
(c) When a season is overtaken by violent love.
(d) When a season changes before its time.

8. How does Eryximachus define astronomy?
(a) The study of the stars and their agreement with love.
(b) The study of how love orders the stars.
(c) The study of how the stars affect love.
(d) The study of the stars and their opposition to love.

9. Besides Apollodorus, to whom else has Aristodemus recounted the events of the party?
(a) No one.
(b) Philip.
(c) Glaucon.
(d) Phoenix.

10. According to Eryximachus, how many kinds of love exist in the human body?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

11. What does Aristophanes state that mankind does not understand?
(a) The wisdom of Love.
(b) The necessity of Love.
(c) The hypocrisy of Love.
(d) The power of Love.

12. Why does Apollodorus have pity for rich men?
(a) Because they think they are doing nothing when they are doing something.
(b) Because they never seem to have enough money no matter how much they make.
(c) Because they think they are doing something when they are doing nothing.
(d) Because they have more money than they can possibly spend.

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

14. Where is Socrates before entering Agathon's house?
(a) The dining room of the neighboring house.
(b) The portico of a house that is two houses away.
(c) The portico of the neighboring house.
(d) The dining room of a house that is two houses away.

15. When does Agathon's sacrifice of victory take place?
(a) Two days before the party.
(b) The day before the party.
(c) Two weeks before the party.
(d) One week before the party.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many types of "creatures" does Aristophanes think there were in the beginning of man?

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

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

4. What is one of the points that Eryximachus makes with Urania's story?

5. What is the order of the three things in Hesiod's theory, as referenced by Phaedrus?

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