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

2. What is the benefit Callicles believes will come from those who have been wronged?
(a) They will stop asserting their authority over naturally superior people.
(b) They become stronger.
(c) They will educate others on how to do right.
(d) They will be at peace.

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

4. Gorgias believes that the most important things are health, wealth, and what?
(a) Courage.
(b) Justice.
(c) Generosity.
(d) Beauty.

5. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Belief.
(c) Stories.
(d) Arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates define tyranny as the power to do?

2. What challenge is Gorgias being faced with?

3. Why does Socrates have a problem with cookery?

4. What does Gorgias claim is the basis for all arts and sciences?

5. What kinds of pleasure and pain does Socrates believe should be experienced?

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