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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 are men in power with little common sense not able to judge, in Socrates' opinion?
(a) How to punish a criminal.
(b) What is best for them.
(c) The common good.
(d) The best defensive actions.

2. Chapter I states there cannot be false and true what?
(a) Belief.
(b) Stories.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Knowledge.

3. What, according to Socrates, is the only way for remarks like Callicles' to be credible?
(a) If the person has experience.
(b) If the person is knowledgeable.
(c) If the person is fearless.
(d) If the person has good intentions.

4. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Grandiosity.
(c) Gratification.
(d) Anger.

5. What does Socrates believe is the greatest evil?
(a) To think highly of oneself.
(b) To avoid punishment.
(c) To do wrong.
(d) To ignore wrong.

Short Answer Questions

1. While acknowledging punishment is a negative action, Socrates regards it as what?

2. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?

3. What does Gorgias claim is the basis for all arts and sciences?

4. Gorgias believes that without mastering rhetoric, what is the occurrence of rhetoric left to?

5. What does rhetoric engage, in Gorgias' opinion?

(see the answer key)

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