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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 good can be delimited by what?
(a) Pleasure.
(b) Pain.
(c) Experience.
(d) Politics.
2. What does Gorgias intend to use rhetoric for?
(a) To educate.
(b) To speak and comprehend.
(c) To manipulate a crowd.
(d) To frighten criminals.
3. What is the benefit of rhetoric in Gorgias' example of medicine?
(a) Doctors can persuade their patients to take medicines.
(b) It makes doctor's appointments fun.
(c) It makes relaying information more proficient.
(d) It promotes prescription drugs.
4. Gorgias believes that the most important things are health, wealth, and what?
(a) Courage.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Justice.
(d) Generosity.
5. What does Socrates say a rhetorician must have to persuade a physician?
(a) Good looks.
(b) Courage.
(c) Support.
(d) Knowledge.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?
2. Where do the men in "Gorgias" meet to discuss rhetoric?
3. What does Socrates regard as better than being cured of sickness?
4. What is Socrates' opinion of what causes inconsistency in speech?
5. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?
Short Essay Questions
1. What makes Socrates see punishment (a negative action) as a positive one?
2. In Socrates' opinion, why do rhetoricians and Sophists find it difficult to define themselves?
3. Why does Socrates compare medicine and gymnastics to legislation and justice?
4. What are the similarities and differences between learning and acquiring a belief?
5. In Socrates' opinion, what is the effect of someone with great power who has little common sense?
6. Why does Socrates favor Gorgias' answers more than Polus'?
7. How is it that one can suffer justly or unjustly? What makes the difference in Socrates' opinion?
8. How does Gorgias see rhetoric as a means for great power?
9. Why does Socrates see all advantages as beneficial? Why does he see some wrong actions as just?
10. Why does Socrates believe only those without knowledge can be persuaded by rhetoric?
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