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

2. What example does Pausanius use in explaining the role of tyranny?
(a) Leander.
(b) Aristogeiton.
(c) Hippolytus.
(d) Alcyone.

3. Whose permission does Socrates seek before asking Agathon questions?
(a) Aristophanes.
(b) Phaedrus.
(c) Eryximachus.
(d) Pausanius.

4. How is the muse, Urania, described in Eryximachus' speech?
(a) Fair and heavenly.
(b) Fair, but not heavenly.
(c) Heavenly, but unfair.
(d) Neither fair nor heavenly.

5. What was Eryximachus' ancestor, Asclepius, an expert in?
(a) Neither gymnastic nor husbandry.
(b) Gymnastic and husbandry.
(c) Husbandry, but not gymnastic.
(d) Gymnastic, but not husbandry.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, who changes proverbs about Agamemnon and Menelaus?

2. Which one of the following is not used by Diotima to describe Love?

3. What is the "art" that Eryximachus refers to as the inspiration for the ideas in his speech?

4. How does Diotima define a spirit?

5. How does Homer describe love's feet in the passage quoted by Agathon?

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