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

2. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?
(a) Getting out of trouble.
(b) Curing disease.
(c) Persuading authorities.
(d) Gaining sympathy.

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

4. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?
(a) Excessive.
(b) Arbitrary.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Objective.

5. What subjects does Socrates specify rhetoricians have the ability to speak about?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Science.
(c) All subjects.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are men in power with little common sense not able to judge, in Socrates' opinion?

2. Socrates regards flattery is the main point used on what area?

3. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

4. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?

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

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