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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

2. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?

3. What does Gorgias claim rhetoric is not intended to do?

4. What does Gorgias specify sciences also involve?

5. Socrates believes good can be delimited by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why can the art of rhetoric not impart knowledge, according to Gorgias?

2. How does Gorgias see rhetoric aiding to the common good of humans?

3. When an unjust act is committed, Socrates asks whether the wrongdoer or the sufferer is more wretched. Why?

4. Why does Socrates like to argue?

5. How can pain or pleasure be useful, in Socrates' opinion?

6. What are the similarities and differences between learning and acquiring a belief?

7. What does Socrates feel would ensure happiness in society? Why?

8. How is it that one can suffer justly or unjustly? What makes the difference in Socrates' opinion?

9. Is Polus' claim that even unjust people like Archelaus are happy correct or incorrect? Why?

10. What is Socrates' differentiation between pleasures and gratifications in different skills?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the power of knowledge as well as its effect on the individual and on the individual's surroundings.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the dynamic of the men in "Gorgias" draws information.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Socrates' and Callicles' conflict of justice in relation to human nature.

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