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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. What does Gorgias intend to use rhetoric for?

2. Gorgias believes the ability to do what has the most possibility for the greatest good?

3. Why does Socrates hold rhetoricians in low esteem?

4. Socrates wants to learn the _____ of rhetoric.

5. Why does Socrates have a low regard for Sophists?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is Polus' claim that even unjust people like Archelaus are happy correct or incorrect? Why?

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

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

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

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

8. Why does Socrates like to argue?

9. What does Socrates feel would ensure happiness in society? Why?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Socrates' method of the correction of injustice and its plausibility or implausibility.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Gorgias' fixation on the prevalence of language in all things.

Essay Topic 3

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

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