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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) Professional.
(b) Promotional.
(c) Exaggerated.
(d) Objective.

2. What does Gorgias distinguish as the difference between acquiring knowledge and acquiring a belief?
(a) Knowledge is more available in society.
(b) A belief is more available in society.
(c) A belief can be acquired without certainty.
(d) A belief is more subjective than knowledge.

3. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?
(a) He believes that their influences is insignificant.
(b) He failed as a rhetorician.
(c) He believes that they are evil.
(d) He believes that they are careless.

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

5. How does Socrates suggest happiness and well-being can be assured?
(a) If people become immortal.
(b) If injustice is prevented.
(c) If people are properly fed.
(d) If families stick together.

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

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

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

9. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?
(a) Belief.
(b) Stories.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Knowledge.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?

2. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?

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

4. How does Gorgias say one should use power?

5. Gorgias believes the ability to do what has the most possibility for the greatest good?

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