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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. Gorgias describes good rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?
(a) Excitedly.
(b) Creatively.
(c) Critically.
(d) Precisely.

2. What does rhetoric engage, in Gorgias' opinion?
(a) All political parties.
(b) All sciences.
(c) All social classes.
(d) All cultures.

3. Socrates believes good can be delimited by what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Pleasure.
(c) Experience.
(d) Pain.

4. What is Polus meant to be an example of?
(a) The effects of a corrupt government.
(b) The ignorance of youth.
(c) How to argue with Socrates.
(d) The negative effects of freedom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the discussion of rhetoric between Gorgias and Socrates turn into?

2. Who does Socrates believe power is beneficial to?

3. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?

4. What subjects does Socrates specify rhetoricians have the ability to speak about?

5. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?

(see the answer key)

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