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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 Socrates regard as better than being cured of sickness?

2. Socrates believes to learn rhetoric, what must one also learn?

3. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?

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

5. Socrates regards rhetoric as a skill that elicits what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why can the art of rhetoric not impart knowledge, according to Gorgias?

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

7. Why does Socrates question Gorgias about rhetoric?

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

9. How can pain or pleasure be useful, in Socrates' opinion?

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

How is the ideology presented in "Gorgias" something that we see in our society today?

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