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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 makes the comparison: medicine is to sickness and justice is to _____.
(a) No education.
(b) Wrongdoing.
(c) Anger.
(d) Time.

2. How does Socrates regard just actions?
(a) As philosophical.
(b) As modern.
(c) As beautiful.
(d) As ancient.

3. According to Socrates, what is the key ingredient in determining who a person becomes?
(a) How much money they have.
(b) What evil they are exposed to.
(c) What they know.
(d) How they are raised.

4. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?
(a) Vocabulary.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Justice.
(d) Art.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates regard as better than being cured of sickness?

2. Why does Socrates think areas of art need to be properly defined?

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

4. What kind of people does Socrates believe rhetoric can influence?

5. Why does Socrates regard Polus' responses as useless?

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