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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 hold rhetoricians in low esteem?
(a) He believes that they are careless.
(b) He believes that they are evil.
(c) He believes that their influences is insignificant.
(d) He failed as a rhetorician.

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

3. What description of rhetoric is Gorgias supposed to provide?
(a) Professional.
(b) Promotional.
(c) Objective.
(d) Exaggerated.

4. What does Socrates specify makes advantageous actions not beneficial?
(a) When only a few people benefit.
(b) When they are only short-term.
(c) When they are achieved uncreatively.
(d) When they are achieved unjustly.

5. Socrates uses the comparison: medicine is to gymnastics as justice is to ______.
(a) Prison.
(b) Soul.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Legislation.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?

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

3. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?

4. Gorgias believes the ability to do what has the most possibility for the greatest good?

5. What is the benefit of rhetoric in Gorgias' example of medicine?

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