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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. According to Socrates, who are the second happiest people?
(a) Those who get married.
(b) Those who are healthy.
(c) Those who only briefly suffer.
(d) Those who deliver others from evil.

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

3. Gorgias describes good rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?
(a) Critically.
(b) Creatively.
(c) Excitedly.
(d) Precisely.

4. What does Socrates say friendship, self-control, sharing, and justice maintain order between?
(a) Men and women.
(b) Political parties.
(c) Men, heaven, and earth.
(d) Men and animals.

5. What is the only action a soul that lacks control should be allowed, in Socrates' design?
(a) Art.
(b) Punishment for improvement.
(c) Labor.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates believe people who escape justice unaware of?

2. What does Socrates believe should be the result of any action taken?

3. Socrates believes self-rule is more important than ruling others. Why?

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

5. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?

(see the answer key)

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