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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What description of rhetoric is Gorgias supposed to provide?
(a) Exaggerated.
(b) Objective.
(c) Promotional.
(d) Professional.

2. What kind of a result does Socrates believe any action taken must intend to elicit?
(a) An insignificant result.
(b) A good result.
(c) A short-term benefit.
(d) A self-indulgent result.

3. What does rhetoric engage, in Gorgias' opinion?
(a) All sciences.
(b) All political parties.
(c) All cultures.
(d) All social classes.

4. What does Socrates say defining areas of art is similar to defining?
(a) Political parties.
(b) Likes and dislikes.
(c) Body and soul.
(d) Generations.

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

6. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?
(a) Arbitrary.
(b) Objective.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Excessive.

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

8. What is the key way in which skills are mastered, in Gorgias' opinion?
(a) Gaining experience.
(b) Observation.
(c) Reading.
(d) Extreme practice.

9. What does Socrates not intend to do in his arguments?
(a) Listen to anyone.
(b) Discredit anyone.
(c) Frighten anyone.
(d) Influence anyone.

10. Socrates makes the comparison: medicine is to sickness and justice is to _____.
(a) Wrongdoing.
(b) Anger.
(c) No education.
(d) Time.

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

12. What does Socrates define tyranny as the power to do?
(a) Good.
(b) Evil.
(c) Anything one pleases.
(d) Nothing.

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

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

15. Why does Socrates regard Gorgias' answers as useful?
(a) Because they are unique.
(b) Because he is well educated.
(c) Because they are precise.
(d) Because he understands rhetoric now.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Socrates think areas of art need to be properly defined?

2. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?

3. What does Socrates regard as better than being cured of sickness?

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

5. What does Polus believe is the emotional state of unjust people?

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