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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II (458-469).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?
(a) Harm.
(b) Disgrace.
(c) Continuing.
(d) Judgment.

2. What challenge is Gorgias being faced with?
(a) Responding to anything that is asked.
(b) Having to convince a great philosopher.
(c) Keeping business and personal matters separate.
(d) Convincing the men to follow a religion.

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

4. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?
(a) Justice.
(b) Art.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Vocabulary.

5. What is the key way in which skills are mastered, in Gorgias' opinion?
(a) Reading.
(b) Extreme practice.
(c) Gaining experience.
(d) Observation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?

2. What is Polus meant to be an example of?

3. Socrates uses the comparison: medicine is to gymnastics as justice is to ______.

4. What description of rhetoric is Gorgias supposed to provide?

5. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

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