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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 say defining areas of art is similar to defining?
(a) Body and soul.
(b) Likes and dislikes.
(c) Political parties.
(d) Generations.

2. What does Socrates believe people with too much freedom become?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Gods.
(c) Self-indulgent.
(d) Crazy.

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

4. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?
(a) He believes that they are evil.
(b) He failed as a rhetorician.
(c) He believes that they are careless.
(d) He believes that their influences is insignificant.

5. Chapter I states there cannot be false and true what?
(a) Arguments.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Belief.
(d) Stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. The discussion of rhetoric raises matters of moral, philosophical, and what type of concern?

2. What does Socrates not intend to do in his arguments?

3. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?

4. What does Gorgias specify sciences also involve?

5. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected and criticized?

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