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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV (480-491).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates specify makes advantageous actions not beneficial?
(a) When they are achieved uncreatively.
(b) When they are achieved unjustly.
(c) When they are only short-term.
(d) When only a few people benefit.

2. According to Callicles, where does happiness come from?
(a) Material goods.
(b) Freedom.
(c) A complete family.
(d) A good job.

3. What does Socrates not intend to do in his arguments?
(a) Discredit anyone.
(b) Influence anyone.
(c) Listen to anyone.
(d) Frighten anyone.

4. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Vocabulary.
(c) Art.
(d) Justice.

5. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?
(a) Objective.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Arbitrary.
(d) Excessive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Socrates' criteria in analyzing sciences?

2. What is Polus meant to be an example of?

3. The discussion of rhetoric raises matters of moral, philosophical, and what type of concern?

4. What kind of people does Socrates believe rhetoric can influence?

5. What does Polus believe is the emotional state of unjust people?

(see the answer key)

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