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

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

3. In Socrates' opinion, why are just actions better than unjust?
(a) Because they lead to happiness.
(b) Because justice earns money.
(c) Because they make others feel good about themselves.
(d) Because the gods will be pleased.

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

5. Why does Socrates believe wrongdoers who go unpunished are more wretched than the punished?
(a) Because they will be publicly shunned.
(b) Because they know they will go to Hades.
(c) Because they have lost their humanity.
(d) Because committing injustice is worse than suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates claim is the effect on society by categorizing bad and ugly?

2. What description of rhetoric is Gorgias supposed to provide?

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

4. According to Socrates, who are the second happiest people?

5. How does Socrates suggest happiness and well-being can be assured?

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