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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 kind of people does Socrates believe rhetoric can influence?
(a) People who care.
(b) People with children.
(c) People with no knowledge.
(d) People who are desperate.

2. What does Socrates say determines the varying degrees of pleasure and pain a person feels?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Strength.
(c) Destiny.
(d) Character.

3. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected in his arguments?
(a) Because he thinks he is incorrect.
(b) Because he thinks the conversation has lulled.
(c) Because he wants to get to the truth.
(d) Because he wants the others to exercise their minds.

4. What kind of a result does Socrates believe any action taken must intend to elicit?
(a) A good result.
(b) A self-indulgent result.
(c) A short-term benefit.
(d) An insignificant result.

5. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?
(a) Callicles' house.
(b) Gorgias' house.
(c) A theater.
(d) Socrates' office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe tyrannical power has little to do with?

2. How does Socrates suggest happiness and well-being can be assured?

3. Socrates believes that good people feel what?

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

5. What does Socrates believe makes punishment beneficial?

(see the answer key)

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