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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As related by Apollodorus, how many years has Agathon not resided at Athens?
(a) Only a few years.
(b) Agathon still resides in Athens.
(c) Many years.
(d) Only one year.

3. In Aristophanes' opinion, how are humans originally shaped?
(a) They have no definite shape.
(b) They are round.
(c) They are square.
(d) They are the same shape as they are now.

4. Which one of the following is not an example that Eryximachus uses to describe the hostile elements?
(a) Hard and soft.
(b) Hot and cold.
(c) Moist and dry.
(d) Bitter and sweet.

5. In Eryximachus' opinion, what can the best physician do?
(a) Analyze the different forms of love.
(b) Ignore love's existence.
(c) Appreciate the different forms of love.
(d) Separate the different forms of love.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Pausanius think is the true test of a love's class?

3. As used in Eryximachus' speech, what does the word "licentiousness" mean?

4. When does Agathon's sacrifice of victory take place?

5. What does Eryximachus believe to be the source of pestilence and destruction in nature?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the subject of the speeches at the Symposium decided?

2. What is the difference in the loves that Pausanias describes?

3. Where is Socrates when Aristodemus arrives at Agathon's house?

4. What advice does Eryximachus have for Aristophanes before he starts speaking?

5. How does Orpheus become an example used by Phaedrus to depict what not to do?

6. According to Aristophanes, how did humans begin to walk upright?

7. How well does Apollodorus know Socrates in order to verify the information of what took place at the Symposium?

8. How is music used by Eryximachus as a metaphor for love?

9. How many kinds of love does Pausanias claim there are and why?

10. How does Phaedrus use Alcestis' story as an example in his speech?

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