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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. Socrates regards flattery is the main point used on what area?
(a) Politics.
(b) Sales.
(c) Romance.
(d) Education.

2. Socrates often refers to a good soul in what kind of a light?
(a) Negative.
(b) Sympathetic.
(c) Sarcastic.
(d) Religious.

3. What does Socrates believe excellence leads to?
(a) Ego.
(b) Fraudulence.
(c) Demise.
(d) Goodness.

4. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?
(a) Their objective.
(b) Society.
(c) Their art.
(d) Justice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?

2. What does Socrates say a rhetorician must have to persuade a physician?

3. Why does Socrates try to test Callicles?

4. How does Socrates think one with destructive power feels?

5. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?

(see the answer key)

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