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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) Justice.
(b) Vocabulary.
(c) Art.
(d) Medicine.

2. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?
(a) Body.
(b) Soul.
(c) Beliefs.
(d) Emotions.

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

4. Socrates believes part of learning about justice is acting how?
(a) Indifferently.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Extremely.
(d) Justly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

2. What challenge is Gorgias being faced with?

3. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?

4. What does Gorgias distinguish as the difference between acquiring knowledge and acquiring a belief?

5. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected and criticized?

(see the answer key)

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