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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 is the only action a soul that lacks control should be allowed, in Socrates' design?
(a) Punishment for improvement.
(b) Art.
(c) Labor.
(d) Eating.

2. According to Socrates, what is the key ingredient in determining who a person becomes?
(a) What evil they are exposed to.
(b) How much money they have.
(c) How they are raised.
(d) What they know.

3. Socrates believes that weak people lack conviction and can lose what?
(a) Their family.
(b) Their money.
(c) Everything.
(d) Their life.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates believe people with lack of self-control cannot maintain friendships?

2. What challenge is Gorgias being faced with?

3. Who is inferior in Callicles' opinion?

4. How does Socrates say orators who only speak for their own self-interest are treating the public?

5. Chapter I states there cannot be false and true what?

(see the answer key)

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