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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. Why does Socrates regard Polus' responses as useless?
(a) Because he uses elevated vocabulary.
(b) Because they are long speeches.
(c) Because Polus is uneducated.
(d) Because he cannot comprehend him.

2. What does Socrates say a rhetorician must have to persuade a physician?
(a) Support.
(b) Good looks.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Courage.

3. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected and criticized?
(a) So he does not feel guilty about monopolizing the conversation.
(b) So he can challenge them back.
(c) So he can condescend to them.
(d) So he may improve.

4. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?
(a) Precisely.
(b) Somberly.
(c) Delightfully.
(d) Randomly.

5. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?
(a) Society as a whole.
(b) The one who suffers injustice.
(c) The one who commits injustice.
(d) The family of the victim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates specify produces gratification and pleasure?

2. What does Socrates believe tyrannical power has little to do with?

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

4. What does Gorgias claim rhetoric is not intended to do?

5. How does rhetoric benefit politicians in Gorgias' musings on politics?

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