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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. What does Socrates see justice in opposition to?
(a) Art.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Opinion.

2. How does Socrates suggest happiness and well-being can be assured?
(a) If families stick together.
(b) If people are properly fed.
(c) If people become immortal.
(d) If injustice is prevented.

3. What kind of people does Socrates believe rhetoric can influence?
(a) People with no knowledge.
(b) People who care.
(c) People who are desperate.
(d) People with children.

4. Who does Socrates see professions influencing?
(a) Those that practice them.
(b) Those that depend on them.
(c) Lay-people.
(d) Politicians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While acknowledging punishment is a negative action, Socrates regards it as what?

2. What is Socrates' opinion of what causes inconsistency in speech?

3. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

4. Socrates wants to learn the _____ of rhetoric.

5. What does Socrates specify produces gratification and pleasure?

(see the answer key)

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