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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does Alcibiades compare Socrates to in his speech?
(a) Melanthios.
(b) Marsyas.
(c) Eumaros.
(d) Athenion.
2. According to Socrates, what ideas can a man become "pregnant" with?
(a) How to fight wars.
(b) How to raise children.
(c) How to best run a city and the nation.
(d) How to resolve conflict without wars.
3. What general definition of Love does Diotima provide?
(a) The desire to have neither good nor bad.
(b) The desire to have both good or bad.
(c) The desire to have the good forever.
(d) The desire to have the bad temporarily.
4. What characteristics does love have, according to Agathon?
(a) Soft and tender.
(b) Soft and rough.
(c) Rough, but tender.
(d) Soft, but coarse.
5. According to Alcibiades, what tactic does not work with Socrates?
(a) Manipulation.
(b) Flattery.
(c) Fear.
(d) Bribery.
6. How does Diotima think a young person should interact with beautiful minds?
(a) Only give ideas to them.
(b) Neither gain knowledge nor give ideas to them.
(c) Exchange knowledge and ideas with them.
(d) Only gain knowledge from them.
7. In Agathon's opinion, what does love compel people to do?
(a) The wrong thing.
(b) Mostly the right thing, but sometimes the wrong thing.
(c) Mostly the wrong thing, but sometimes the right thing.
(d) The right thing.
8. Whose permission does Socrates seek before asking Agathon questions?
(a) Pausanius.
(b) Phaedrus.
(c) Eryximachus.
(d) Aristophanes.
9. Which one of the following is not listed by Socrates as an idea that can be transmitted through love?
(a) War.
(b) Politics.
(c) Government.
(d) Virtue.
10. What example does Socrates use as a tale that has lived throughout generations?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Heracles.
11. According to Socrates, which love helps a philosopher reproduce an idea?
(a) The love of patience.
(b) The love of generosity.
(c) The love of intelligence.
(d) The love of beauty.
12. Who does Socrates refer to as an example of a remembered writer?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Aesop.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Homer.
13. In what military campaign do Socrates and Alcibiades participate?
(a) Volos.
(b) Pireas.
(c) Athens.
(d) Argos.
14. Who does Alcibiades request to listen to the story of his extreme actions with Socrates?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Only people who do not understand philosophy.
(c) No one.
(d) Only people who understand philosophy.
15. As explained to Socrates by Diotima, what event brings Love's mother and father together?
(a) Artemis' birth.
(b) Athena's birth.
(c) Alcmene's birth.
(d) Aphrodite's birth.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Diotima think women are helped to give birth?
2. Besides having a child with a woman, how does Socrates think that some men express their "pregnancy"?
3. What is the source of the Platonic Dialogues?
4. How does Alcibiades claim that Socrates assaulted him?
5. Why does Diotima think Love is not a god?
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