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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V (492-502).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Socrates believe people who escape justice unaware of?
(a) The pain they have inflicted on others.
(b) The pattern of bad behavior that will arise.
(c) The reality of what will happen to them when they die.
(d) The possible benefit for their soul.

3. Socrates believes that good people feel what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Righteous.
(c) Confused.
(d) Neglected.

4. What does Socrates believe all people experience the same?
(a) Punishment.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Suffering.
(d) Power.

5. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?
(a) Getting out of trouble.
(b) Persuading authorities.
(c) Curing disease.
(d) Gaining sympathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Callicles regards truth as?

2. What kind of people does Socrates believe rhetoric can influence?

3. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?

4. What does the discussion of rhetoric between Gorgias and Socrates turn into?

5. What does Socrates say determines the varying degrees of pleasure and pain a person feels?

(see the answer key)

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