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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. Gorgias classifies rhetoric is an art that deals with what?
(a) People.
(b) Religion.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Words.

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

3. In Callciles' opinion, why is philosophy destructive?
(a) It justifies evils.
(b) It encourages separatism.
(c) It takes away from productivity.
(d) It deprives people of experience.

4. According to Socrates, how is one who desires nothing happy?
(a) Because they are fulfilled.
(b) Because they are just.
(c) Because they are generous.
(d) Because they are blissfully ignorant.

5. What does Socrates believe that wanting and desiring involve feeling?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Selfish.
(c) Pain.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Callicles uses Hercules as an example of how convention justifies what?

2. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

3. What are Socrates' criteria in analyzing sciences?

4. Why does Socrates think areas of art need to be properly defined?

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

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