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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 Socrates say people overcome by the desire to love spend their time doing?
(a) Fulfilling personal gratification.
(b) Pleasing the one they love.
(c) Feeding sexual desires.
(d) Pleasing themselves.

2. What does Phedras want from Socrates when he threatens him?
(a) To come to dinner.
(b) To keep quiet about the speech he read.
(c) To be kind ot Lysias.
(d) To give a speech of his own.

3. How did Stesichorus receive his disability?
(a) He was caught in a horrible storm.
(b) He ignored the truth in his poems.
(c) He offended the gods.
(d) He was punished for a crime.

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

5. What does reason discard when it is in control according to Socrates?
(a) Emotion.
(b) Needs.
(c) Love.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Socrates say inspired his second speech?

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

3. Why does Socrates not want to take Phaedras's advice about his speech?

4. What is Acumenus's occupation?

5. What does Socrates say guides our actions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Phaedras say is the danger in love overcoming emotion?

2. What does Phaedras say to get Socrates to deliver a speech of his own?

3. What does Lysais say are the main benefits in the kind of relationship Lysias has with Phaedras?

4. Why does Socrates say some men are seen as mad when they are not?

5. What is Lysias promoting in his speech?

6. What is Socrates's opinion of Lysias's speech?

7. What does Socrates say souls are striving for, and why?

8. What does Socrates say a man must love to come close to the gods, and why?

9. What is Eros, and what are its effects?

10. What is Lysisas's speech about?

(see the answer keys)

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