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

2. What is the benefit of rhetoric in Gorgias' example of medicine?
(a) It makes relaying information more proficient.
(b) It promotes prescription drugs.
(c) It makes doctor's appointments fun.
(d) Doctors can persuade their patients to take medicines.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say defining areas of art is similar to defining?

2. Gorgias believes that the most important things are health, wealth, and what?

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

4. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?

5. Why does Socrates have a low regard for Sophists?

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