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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 (265-272).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What two things does Socrates say pleasures can be?
(a) Appropriate and inappropriate.
(b) Happy and sad.
(c) Active and inactive.
(d) Constructive and deconstructive.

4. Who made good predictions when insane?
(a) Sibyl.
(b) Boreas.
(c) Merlin.
(d) Achimedes.

5. What does Socrates say those in love care most about?
(a) Their privacy.
(b) Their lovers.
(c) Themselves.
(d) Their image.

Short Answer Questions

1. What remains when desire becomes pain?

2. What does Socrates thinks madness frees men from?

3. When does a soul overcome by desire become frantic?

4. Who wrote about duplicate expression?

5. What kind of particles is beauty able to move?

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