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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 believe is the greatest evil?
(a) To avoid punishment.
(b) To do wrong.
(c) To ignore wrong.
(d) To think highly of oneself.

2. Socrates believes that weak people lack conviction and can lose what?
(a) Their life.
(b) Their family.
(c) Everything.
(d) Their money.

3. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?
(a) Justice.
(b) Society.
(c) Their art.
(d) Their objective.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gorgias believes that the most important things are health, wealth, and what?

2. Callicles claims that, through history, strength is reflected in what?

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

4. What kind of a result does Socrates believe any action taken must intend to elicit?

5. According to Callicles, where does happiness come from?

(see the answer key)

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