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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 explain is different from bad?
(a) Pain.
(b) Fear.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Injustice.

2. What does Socrates say determines the varying degrees of pleasure and pain a person feels?
(a) Tolerance.
(b) Destiny.
(c) Character.
(d) Strength.

3. What does Socrates define tyranny as the power to do?
(a) Good.
(b) Anything one pleases.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Evil.

4. What does Socrates believe tyrannical power has little to do with?
(a) Greatness.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Money.

5. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Excessive.
(c) Objective.
(d) Arbitrary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates believes that weak people lack conviction and can lose what?

2. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?

3. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?

4. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?

5. While acknowledging punishment is a negative action, Socrates regards it as what?

(see the answer key)

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