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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter I states there cannot be false and true what?

2. What kind of a result does Socrates believe any action taken must intend to elicit?

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

4. What does rhetoric engage, in Gorgias' opinion?

5. What does Socrates believe tyrannical power has little to do with?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Polus embody the negative sides of freedom as Socrates has discussed?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the nature of good and bad as discussed by the philosophers in Gorgias.

Essay Topic 2

Choose one man from "Gorgias" to discuss and defend his position.

Essay Topic 3

Develop your own argument for or against natural order or convention.

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