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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose permission does Socrates seek before asking Agathon questions?
(a) Pausanius.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Phaedrus.
(d) Eryximachus.

2. How does Diotima think women are helped to give birth?
(a) By looking at, understanding, and then ignoring beauty.
(b) By looking at beauty.
(c) By understanding beauty.
(d) By ignoring beauty.

3. How does Socrates view people in Alcibiades' view?
(a) He does not care if they are beautiful or rich.
(b) He prefers them to be both beautiful and rich.
(c) He does not care if they are beautiful, as long as they are rich.
(d) He does not care if they are rich, as long as they are beautiful.

4. In Socrates' opinion, what usually happens to the children of people who invent laws?
(a) They are respected.
(b) They are forgotten.
(c) They are disrespected.
(d) They are remembered.

5. Where is Diotima, Socrates' teacher, from?
(a) Dimitsana.
(b) Tripoli.
(c) Levidi.
(d) Mantineia.

6. Who does Alcibiades compare Socrates to in his speech?
(a) Marsyas.
(b) Eumaros.
(c) Athenion.
(d) Melanthios.

7. According to Diotima, how many people does a young person eventually become attracted to?
(a) Many.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) None.

8. As explained by Socrates, which images can the young philosopher understand and reproduce?
(a) Virtue, beauty, and wisdom.
(b) Beauty and wisdom, but not virtue.
(c) Virtue and wisdom, but not beauty.
(d) Virtue and beauty, but not wisdom.

9. According to Socrates, what ideas can a man become "pregnant" with?
(a) How to fight wars.
(b) How to resolve conflict without wars.
(c) How to best run a city and the nation.
(d) How to raise children.

10. What does Diotima tell Socrates about Love's function?
(a) It allows the ignorant to feel wise.
(b) It allows the wise to feel ignorant.
(c) It allows humans to taste immortality.
(d) It allows humans to understand immortality.

11. In Diotima's opinion, what is the confusing point of Love?
(a) It is what the lover feels.
(b) It is what the lover might or might not feel.
(c) It is what the lover cannot feel.
(d) It is what the lover should not feel.

12. What complaint does the drunken Alcibiades have at the end of Part 7?
(a) That there is no more wine.
(b) That Socrates is sneaking up on him.
(c) That Socrates is wiser than him.
(d) That he missed Socrates' speech.

13. What general definition of Love does Diotima provide?
(a) The desire to have the bad temporarily.
(b) The desire to have the good forever.
(c) The desire to have neither good nor bad.
(d) The desire to have both good or bad.

14. How does Homer describe love's feet in the passage quoted by Agathon?
(a) Determined.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Quick.
(d) Heavy.

15. What does Socrates think about the speeches he has just heard?
(a) They are filled with lies.
(b) They are too logical.
(c) They make no sense.
(d) They are filled with the truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates ironically state his speech is about?

2. Which one of the following is not listed by Socrates as an idea that can be transmitted through love?

3. In Agathon's opinion, how does love win?

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

5. Which one of the following is not included in the things Agathon thinks are associated with love?

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