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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI (503-514).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?
(a) Experience.
(b) Pleasures.
(c) Pain.
(d) Politics.

2. What is the benefit of rhetoric in Gorgias' example of medicine?
(a) It makes relaying information more proficient.
(b) Doctors can persuade their patients to take medicines.
(c) It promotes prescription drugs.
(d) It makes doctor's appointments fun.

3. When does Socrates regard pain as useful?
(a) Never.
(b) When it instills fear.
(c) When it is used to protect.
(d) In punishment.

4. What effect does Socrates see a destructive government has on youth?
(a) The youth develop low self-value.
(b) The youth are inspired to be better.
(c) The youth adopt the same destructive behavior.
(d) The youth rise up and overthrow the government.

5. Socrates believes good can be delimited by what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Pain.
(c) Politics.
(d) Experience.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe is worse than being poor or sick?

2. What is Socrates' opinion of what causes inconsistency in speech?

3. Socrates believes that men of substance do not engage in things that are not what?

4. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected in his arguments?

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

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