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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 (235-241).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say guides desire?
(a) Nature and heredity.
(b) Happiness and torture.
(c) Stability and progress.
(d) Reason and emotion.

2. What does Phaedras think about repetition in speech?
(a) It is beneficial.
(b) It is common.
(c) All of these
(d) It is necessary.

3. What are Socrates and Phaedras doing when they meet each other at the beginning of the book?
(a) Exercising.
(b) Resting.
(c) Waiting.
(d) Reading.

4. How does Socrates say Phaedras delivered the speech?
(a) Charmingly.
(b) Hesitatingly.
(c) Believably.
(d) Passionately.

5. What does Socrates want in a place to hear the speech?
(a) A tree and a breeze.
(b) Birds and sun.
(c) A rock and some water.
(d) Some shade and a chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say one must do when dealing with a subject in a speech?

2. What compels Socrates to give a speech of his own?

3. What does Socrates think people need to have sympathy towards?

4. What is the Delphic motto?

5. What is Socrates embarrassed about when he begins his speech to Phaedras?

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