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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. Socrates believes part of learning about justice is acting how?
(a) Indifferently.
(b) Respectfully.
(c) Extremely.
(d) Justly.

2. Why does Socrates regard Gorgias' answers as useful?
(a) Because he understands rhetoric now.
(b) Because they are unique.
(c) Because they are precise.
(d) Because he is well educated.

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

4. What is the key way in which skills are mastered, in Gorgias' opinion?
(a) Gaining experience.
(b) Observation.
(c) Extreme practice.
(d) Reading.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What comments of Polus' does Socrates discredit?

2. Socrates regards flattery is the main point used on what area?

3. What does Socrates specify produces gratification and pleasure?

4. What subjects does Socrates specify rhetoricians have the ability to speak about?

5. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Socrates see punishment (a negative action) as a positive one?

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

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

4. How does Gorgias see rhetoric as a means for great power?

5. What are the similarities and differences between learning and acquiring a belief?

6. Why does Socrates question Gorgias about rhetoric?

7. Why does Socrates see all advantages as beneficial? Why does he see some wrong actions as just?

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

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

10. Why does Socrates believe that it is important for a wrongdoer's soul be brought to justice?

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