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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Soul.
(d) Body.
2. According to Socrates, who are the second happiest people?
(a) Those who only briefly suffer.
(b) Those who deliver others from evil.
(c) Those who are healthy.
(d) Those who get married.
3. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?
(a) Belief.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Stories.
4. Socrates wants to learn the _____ of rhetoric.
(a) Skill.
(b) Art.
(c) Myth.
(d) Tool.
5. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?
(a) Precisely.
(b) Randomly.
(c) Delightfully.
(d) Somberly.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Socrates believe power is beneficial to?
2. What does Socrates regard as better than being cured of sickness?
3. What is Socrates' opinion of what causes inconsistency in speech?
4. What does Socrates believe makes punishment beneficial?
5. What does Socrates claim is the effect on society by categorizing bad and ugly?
Short Essay Questions
1. How can pain or pleasure be useful, in Socrates' opinion?
2. Why does Socrates see all advantages as beneficial? Why does he see some wrong actions as just?
3. In terms of ethics, why does Socrates consider rhetoric a dangerous tool?
4. What is Socrates' differentiation between pleasures and gratifications in different skills?
5. How does Gorgias see rhetoric as a means for great power?
6. What role does knowledge and justice play in learning and practicing rhetoric?
7. In Socrates' opinion, what is the effect of someone with great power who has little common sense?
8. Why does Socrates compare medicine and gymnastics to legislation and justice?
9. Why does Socrates believe that it is important for a wrongdoer's soul be brought to justice?
10. How does the philosophers' conversation of rhetoric incite discussions of broader subjects such as morality?
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