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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III (470-479).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Socrates believe wrongdoers who go unpunished are more wretched than the punished?
(a) Because they will be publicly shunned.
(b) Because committing injustice is worse than suffering.
(c) Because they have lost their humanity.
(d) Because they know they will go to Hades.

3. What does Gorgias describe gaining knowledge as involving?
(a) Manual action.
(b) Money.
(c) Patience.
(d) Intelligence.

4. What does Socrates regard as the most damaging to one's soul?
(a) Unjust actions.
(b) Malnourishment.
(c) Bad relationships.
(d) Exposure to evil.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Socrates' opinion, why are just actions better than unjust?

2. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?

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

4. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

5. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?

(see the answer key)

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