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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Socrates' opinion of what causes inconsistency in speech?
(a) Poor education as a child.
(b) Heckling by the audience.
(c) A lack of understanding on the subject.
(d) Emotions interfering with judgment.

2. What does Gorgias intend to use rhetoric for?
(a) To educate.
(b) To manipulate a crowd.
(c) To frighten criminals.
(d) To speak and comprehend.

3. Chapter I states there cannot be false and true what?
(a) Arguments.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Stories.
(d) Belief.

4. What does Socrates claim is the effect on society by categorizing bad and ugly?
(a) It becomes confused.
(b) It becomes afraid.
(c) It is improved.
(d) It loses its edge.

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

6. What does Socrates believe people with too much freedom become?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Gods.
(c) Crazy.
(d) Self-indulgent.

7. What does Socrates say a rhetorician must have to persuade a physician?
(a) Courage.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Good looks.
(d) Support.

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

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

10. Gorgias believes that without mastering rhetoric, what is the occurrence of rhetoric left to?
(a) Genetics.
(b) Chance.
(c) God.
(d) Politicians.

11. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?
(a) Those that contradict him.
(b) Those that are not passionate.
(c) All of them.
(d) Those that are too long.

12. What does Socrates regard as better than being cured of sickness?
(a) Justice.
(b) A good meal.
(c) Never being sick at all.
(d) Super powers.

13. Why does Socrates have a low regard for Sophists?
(a) They have little influence.
(b) They are too afraid of knowledge.
(c) They actively harm.
(d) They are not concerned with justice.

14. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?
(a) Randomly.
(b) Precisely.
(c) Delightfully.
(d) Somberly.

15. What does Socrates believe tyrannical power has little to do with?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Greatness.
(c) Common sense.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?

3. In Socrates' opinion, who are the happiest people?

4. How does Socrates suggest happiness and well-being can be assured?

5. What does Socrates regard as the most damaging to one's soul?

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