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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. What does Socrates suggest is the only way one can avoid harmful pleasures?
(a) By gaining experience.
(b) By fighting injustice.
(c) By being rational.
(d) By being courageous.

2. What does Socrates believe excellence leads to?
(a) Goodness.
(b) Ego.
(c) Fraudulence.
(d) Demise.

3. What does Socrates specify is different between a coward experiencing pain and a brave man experiencing pain?
(a) Brave men expect pain and are unaffected.
(b) They experience different degrees.
(c) Cowards learn from their pain.
(d) Brave men feel nothing.

4. How does Socrates regard just actions?
(a) As modern.
(b) As ancient.
(c) As philosophical.
(d) As beautiful.

5. Who does Socrates see professions influencing?
(a) Those that practice them.
(b) Lay-people.
(c) Politicians.
(d) Those that depend on them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the key way in which skills are mastered, in Gorgias' opinion?

2. Why does Socrates have a problem with cookery?

3. According to Socrates, how is one who desires nothing happy?

4. Gorgias classifies rhetoric is an art that deals with what?

5. What does Socrates often call good things?

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