View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Socrates say the rival city to Athens showed their superiority?
(a) By starting wars.
(b) By securing their borders.
(c) By caring for their own people.
(d) By being brief and to the point.

2. To what did Protagoras compare the parts of virtue?
(a) The letters of the alphabet.
(b) The parts of a face.
(c) The pieces of a puzzle.
(d) The links in a chain.

3. What poet did Protagoras say was really a dophist?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) All of these.
(c) Pericles.
(d) Homer.

4. What did Hippocrates NOT care about in his education?
(a) Getting money.
(b) Speaking better.
(c) Learning truth.
(d) Impressing others.

5. Why did so many men want to become sophists?
(a) They wanted to be more persuasive.
(b) They wanted to be good speakers.
(c) They wanted to become politicians.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

6. Whom did Simonides criticize?
(a) Philomel.
(b) Protagoras.
(c) Pittacus.
(d) Phillipi.

7. What did Socrates say was not a teachable craft?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Equity.

8. What is the first question Socrates had for Protagoras?
(a) What will he teach Hippocrates?
(b) Where he came from.
(c) Why he was a sophist.
(d) Where he was going.

9. What made Protagoras upset when speaking to Socrates?
(a) He used literature to counter himself.
(b) He was a better speaker.
(c) He made some good points.
(d) He spouted anti-sophist beliefs.

10. What was the one thing sophists tried to avoid?
(a) Pain.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Falsity.
(d) Corruption.

11. Why did Socrates say the rival city to Athens was so great?
(a) Their physical health.
(b) Their wisdom.
(c) Their military force.
(d) Their social system.

12. What did Socrates say was the opposite of wisdom?
(a) Folly.
(b) Temperance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Knowledge.

13. Why did Protagoras say it never paid to conceal sophist beliefs?
(a) They are natural and correct.
(b) The idea will stifle and die.
(c) Everyone would find out.
(d) Lies are contrary to the soul.

14. What do families say sophists take away from them?
(a) Their beliefs.
(b) Their unity.
(c) Their youth.
(d) Their values.

15. What did Socrates say Hippocrates is letting be molded?
(a) His mind.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) His body.
(d) His soul.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main idea about being something?

2. What did Socrates say was the opposite of fair?

3. What did Socrates have to do to be allowed to ask questions again?

4. What was Pericles' occupation?

5. Why was the poem about Simonides brought up?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 421 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample