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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Pain.
(c) Pleasures.
(d) Experience.

4. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?
(a) Justice.
(b) Their art.
(c) Society.
(d) Their objective.

5. Socrates uses the comparison: medicine is to gymnastics as justice is to ______.
(a) Socrates.
(b) Legislation.
(c) Soul.
(d) Prison.

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

7. Socrates believes good can be delimited by what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Politics.
(c) Experience.
(d) Pain.

8. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?
(a) Harm.
(b) Disgrace.
(c) Judgment.
(d) Continuing.

9. Why does Socrates regard Polus' responses as useless?
(a) Because Polus is uneducated.
(b) Because he cannot comprehend him.
(c) Because he uses elevated vocabulary.
(d) Because they are long speeches.

10. What does Gorgias claim is the basis for all arts and sciences?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Rhetoric.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Creativity.

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

12. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Body.
(c) Soul.
(d) Emotions.

13. Gorgias classifies rhetoric is an art that deals with what?
(a) People.
(b) Words.
(c) Thoughts.
(d) Religion.

14. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?
(a) Anger.
(b) Grandiosity.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Gratification.

15. Who does Socrates believe power is beneficial to?
(a) Criminals.
(b) Youth.
(c) The one with power.
(d) The people.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say defining areas of art is similar to defining?

2. When does Socrates regard pain as useful?

3. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?

4. Why does Socrates believe wrongdoers who go unpunished are more wretched than the punished?

5. Who does Socrates see professions influencing?

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