View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4, line 190a to 196a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Socrates doing while the other guests are eating dinner at Agathon's house?
(a) Eating.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Working.

2. What three elements share a harmonious love in nature, as stated by Eryximachus?
(a) Animals, water, and plants.
(b) People, animals, and plants,
(c) People, animals, and water.
(d) People, water, and plants.

3. How does Eryximachus define symphony?
(a) A disagreement.
(b) A disagreement based on a previous agreement.
(c) An agreement.
(d) An agreement to disagree.

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

5. According to Phaedrus, who are Love's parents?
(a) The earth and the sun.
(b) The gods.
(c) There is no record of Love's parents.
(d) The moon and the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eryximachus describe Pausanias' speech?

2. Who has an argument at the end of Aristophanes' speech?

3. Besides Apollodorus, to whom else has Aristodemus recounted the events of the party?

4. What causes the "man-woman" creatures in Aristophanes' story to become adulterers?

5. According to Eryximachus, how many kinds of love exist in the human body?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 230 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample