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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. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected and criticized?
(a) So he may improve.
(b) So he does not feel guilty about monopolizing the conversation.
(c) So he can condescend to them.
(d) So he can challenge them back.

2. What does Socrates not intend to do in his arguments?
(a) Frighten anyone.
(b) Discredit anyone.
(c) Influence anyone.
(d) Listen to anyone.

3. In Socrates' opinion, why are just actions better than unjust?
(a) Because the gods will be pleased.
(b) Because justice earns money.
(c) Because they make others feel good about themselves.
(d) Because they lead to happiness.

4. Gorgias describes bad rhetoric as delivering a response in what way?
(a) Delightfully.
(b) Precisely.
(c) Randomly.
(d) Somberly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates wants to learn the _____ of rhetoric.

2. What does Gorgias describe gaining knowledge as involving?

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

4. Gorgias believes that the most important things are health, wealth, and what?

5. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Socrates like to argue?

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

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

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

8. Why does Socrates question Gorgias about rhetoric?

9. Why does Socrates favor Gorgias' answers more than Polus'?

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

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