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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II (458-469).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say a rhetorician must have to persuade a physician?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Support.
(c) Good looks.
(d) Courage.

2. Gorgias believes that the most important things are health, wealth, and what?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Justice.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Courage.

3. Why does Socrates have a low regard for Sophists?
(a) They actively harm.
(b) They are not concerned with justice.
(c) They have little influence.
(d) They are too afraid of knowledge.

4. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?
(a) Society as a whole.
(b) The one who commits injustice.
(c) The one who suffers injustice.
(d) The family of the victim.

5. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?
(a) Persuading authorities.
(b) Gaining sympathy.
(c) Getting out of trouble.
(d) Curing disease.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gorgias describes good rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?

2. Socrates regards flattery is the main point used on what area?

3. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?

4. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?

5. What does Gorgias distinguish as the difference between acquiring knowledge and acquiring a belief?

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