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

2. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?
(a) Those that are not passionate.
(b) Those that contradict him.
(c) All of them.
(d) Those that are too long.

3. When does Socrates regard pain as useful?
(a) When it instills fear.
(b) When it is used to protect.
(c) Never.
(d) In punishment.

4. What does Gorgias claim rhetoric is not intended to do?
(a) Be used.
(b) Impart knowledge.
(c) Achieve advantages.
(d) Influence the masses.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?

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

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

4. How does Gorgias say one should use power?

5. Who does Socrates see professions influencing?

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