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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 8, line 214a to 220a.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As explained by Socrates, what is the drive for immortality related to?
(a) The changes and achievements in a person's life.
(b) Neither the changes nor the achievements in a person's life.
(c) The changes, but not achievements in a person's life.
(d) The achievements, but not changes in a person's life.

2. How does Socrates view people in Alcibiades' view?
(a) He prefers them to be both beautiful and rich.
(b) He does not care if they are rich, as long as they are beautiful.
(c) He does not care if they are beautiful or rich.
(d) He does not care if they are beautiful, as long as they are rich.

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

4. What general definition of Love does Diotima provide?
(a) The desire to have the good forever.
(b) The desire to have both good or bad.
(c) The desire to have the bad temporarily.
(d) The desire to have neither good nor bad.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aristophanes' opinion, why do the gods make changes to humans?

2. What phrase does Socrates use to refer to the practice of learning?

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

4. What does Pausanius think is the true test of a love's class?

5. According to Socrates, which love helps a philosopher reproduce an idea?

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