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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 6, line 202a to 208a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of Agathon's speech does Socrates compliment?
(a) The beginning.
(b) The ending.
(c) The middle.
(d) None of it.

2. Where does Phaedrus think that Achilles was sent after his death?
(a) Babylon.
(b) Ionian Islands.
(c) The Islands of the Blest.
(d) Tenedos.

3. According to Phaedrus' story, how could Achilles have avoided death?
(a) By slaying Agamemnon.
(b) By slaying Hector.
(c) By not slaying Hector.
(d) By not slaying Agamemnon.

4. Who requests that Socrates sit near him at the party?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Eryximachus.
(c) Aristodemus.
(d) Agathon.

5. Where does Diotima think that Love sleeps?
(a) In a bed.
(b) In the streets and fields.
(c) On a cloud.
(d) On the rocks and hills.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does astronomy inform people of, according to Eryximachus?

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

3. What does Socrates ironically state his speech is about?

4. In Socrates' speech, how does he describe someone who searches for wisdom?

5. How does Socrates appear when he meets Aristodemus before going to the party?

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