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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 Gorgias claim rhetoric is not intended to do?
(a) Influence the masses.
(b) Be used.
(c) Achieve advantages.
(d) Impart knowledge.

2. According to Socrates, who are the second happiest people?
(a) Those who only briefly suffer.
(b) Those who are healthy.
(c) Those who get married.
(d) Those who deliver others from evil.

3. Why does Socrates regard rhetoric as a dangerous tool?
(a) Because it only gives the appearance of being knowledgeable.
(b) Because so few hold the ability.
(c) Because rhetoric is a guise for something sinister.
(d) Because rhetoricians are too well respected.

4. Why does Socrates regard Polus' responses as useless?
(a) Because they are long speeches.
(b) Because Polus is uneducated.
(c) Because he cannot comprehend him.
(d) Because he uses elevated vocabulary.

5. 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 has good intentions.
(c) If the person is fearless.
(d) If the person is knowledgeable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe should be the result of any action taken?

2. Why does Callicles regard philosophy as dangerous?

3. What challenge is Gorgias being faced with?

4. According to Callicles, where does happiness come from?

5. Callicles uses Hercules as an example of how convention justifies what?

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