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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII (515-527).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates claim is the greatest evil in Chapter IV?
(a) Power.
(b) Disharmony.
(c) Violence.
(d) Cowardice.

2. Callicles criticizes Socrates because he believes what influences Socrates?
(a) Delusion.
(b) Books.
(c) Convention.
(d) Other philosophers.

3. What does Socrates believe a soul that lacks control is?
(a) Frightened.
(b) Unjust.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Lost.

4. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?
(a) Callicles' house.
(b) Socrates' office.
(c) A theater.
(d) Gorgias' house.

5. In Socrates' opinion, why is music useless?
(a) Because it is nonsensical.
(b) Because it only involves flattery and gratification.
(c) Because it brings excessive wealth.
(d) Because it is boring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What attitude does Socrates see defines a person with self-control?

2. What does Socrates say a rhetorician must have to persuade a physician?

3. In Callicles opinion, what does legislation defend?

4. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?

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

(see the answer key)

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