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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 (257-264).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates say writing must be in order to be honorable?
(a) Prepared and researched.
(b) Well cited.
(c) Endowed with good qulaities.
(d) Presented in an appropriate manner.

2. What does Socrates say rhetoric must have to be considered art?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Truth.
(c) Presentation.
(d) Persuasion.

3. What does Socrates say guides our actions?
(a) Desire.
(b) Love.
(c) Impulse.
(d) Motive.

4. What about pleasures does Socrates say men need to recognize?
(a) The affect of them on other people.
(b) The advantages and disadvantages.
(c) The good and bad causes.
(d) The manner in which they come about.

5. What does Socrates say good writing will be able to do?
(a) Engage the reader.
(b) Teach the reader.
(c) Lead the reader.
(d) Confuse the reader.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say calms a soul overcome by desire?

2. Where does Socrates say men get most of their education from?

3. What becomes contradictory if one is not well versed in a subject of a speech according to Socrates?

4. What compels Socrates to give a speech of his own?

5. Who is the man at the beginning of Socrates's speech in love with?

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