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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. What does Gorgias believe rhetoric can be used for?
(a) Gaining sympathy.
(b) Getting out of trouble.
(c) Persuading authorities.
(d) Curing disease.

2. The discussion of rhetoric raises matters of moral, philosophical, and what type of concern?
(a) Military.
(b) Family.
(c) Personal.
(d) Spiritual.

3. What does Socrates specify makes advantageous actions not beneficial?
(a) When they are only short-term.
(b) When they are achieved unjustly.
(c) When they are achieved uncreatively.
(d) When only a few people benefit.

4. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?
(a) The family of the victim.
(b) The one who commits injustice.
(c) The one who suffers injustice.
(d) Society as a whole.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?

2. What does Socrates see justice in opposition to?

3. Socrates wants to learn the _____ of rhetoric.

4. How does rhetoric benefit politicians in Gorgias' musings on politics?

5. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Socrates believe only those without knowledge can be persuaded by rhetoric?

2. When an unjust act is committed, Socrates asks whether the wrongdoer or the sufferer is more wretched. Why?

3. How does Gorgias see rhetoric as a bridge between art and science?

4. What does Socrates feel would ensure happiness in society? Why?

5. What role does knowledge and justice play in learning and practicing rhetoric?

6. Why does Socrates question Gorgias about rhetoric?

7. In Socrates' opinion, why is distinction crucial to individuals and professions?

8. How does Gorgias see rhetoric aiding to the common good of humans?

9. In Socrates' opinion, what is the effect of someone with great power who has little common sense?

10. In Socrates' opinion, why do rhetoricians and Sophists find it difficult to define themselves?

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