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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. While acknowledging punishment is a negative action, Socrates regards it as what?
(a) Positive.
(b) Excessive.
(c) Negative.
(d) Insignificant.

2. What does Gorgias intend to use rhetoric for?
(a) To educate.
(b) To frighten criminals.
(c) To speak and comprehend.
(d) To manipulate a crowd.

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

4. What does Socrates believe is worse than being poor or sick?
(a) Injustice.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Prison.
(d) Death.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is Polus meant to be an example of?

4. What does Gorgias distinguish as the difference between acquiring knowledge and acquiring a belief?

5. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the philosophers' conversation of rhetoric incite discussions of broader subjects such as morality?

2. How is it that one can suffer justly or unjustly? What makes the difference in Socrates' opinion?

3. What is Socrates' differentiation between pleasures and gratifications in different skills?

4. Why does Socrates like to argue?

5. Why does Socrates compare medicine and gymnastics to legislation and justice?

6. How have we seen rhetoric successfully executed in the conversation in Chapter 1?

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

8. How is Socrates able to gain insight into rhetoric?

9. Why can the art of rhetoric not impart knowledge, according to Gorgias?

10. In terms of ethics, why does Socrates consider rhetoric a dangerous tool?

(see the answer keys)

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