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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 lack of control in desires lead to according to Socrates?
(a) Misery.
(b) Death.
(c) Overindulgence.
(d) Poverty.

2. What does Socrates say people with unsound minds dislike?
(a) Things that are superior to them.
(b) Thins that help their relationship.
(c) Things that don't involve them.
(d) Things that surprise them.

3. What facilitated the achievements of the Delphic women?
(a) Courage.
(b) Madness.
(c) Desire.
(d) Love.

4. How does Socrates feel about Eros?
(a) He loves him.
(b) He hates him.
(c) He respects him.
(d) He fears him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lysias visit with Epicrates?

2. What is the temple by the stream of Illissus built in honor of?

3. What trait does Socrates say most lovers want to see in their partners?

4. Who made good predictions when insane?

5. How did Stesichorus receive his disability?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of things does Lysias say should be absent in a prudent relationship?

2. What does Socrates compare most loving relationships to?

3. How does Socrates say love affects the physical well being of those in a relationship, and why?

4. What is Lysisas's speech about?

5. How are the reborn lives of humans decided according to Socrates?

6. What does Socrates compare the form of the soul to at the beginning of his second speech?

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

8. What idea does Socrates have about city people as opposed to country people?

9. What does Socrates say causes most disappointments in loving relationships?

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

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