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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI (503-514).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates believe that wanting and desiring involve feeling?
(a) Pain.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Hope.
(d) Selfish.

2. Socrates believes good can be delimited by what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Pain.
(c) Politics.
(d) Experience.

3. According to Callicles, what do people who are happiest without?
(a) Inhibition.
(b) Obstruction of laws.
(c) Want and desire.
(d) Money and material.

4. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?
(a) Pain.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Experience.
(d) Politics.

5. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?
(a) Callicles' house.
(b) Gorgias' house.
(c) Socrates' office.
(d) A theater.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates try to test Callicles?

2. Socrates believes self-rule is more important than ruling others. Why?

3. What does Callicles believe is the true order between men?

4. Socrates explains that good is not necessarily what?

5. What does Callicles regards truth as?

(see the answer key)

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