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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4, Line 330-337.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the one thing sophists tried to avoid?
(a) Corruption.
(b) Criticism.
(c) Falsity.
(d) Pain.

2. What did Socrates say all men should want to be?
(a) Knowledgeable.
(b) Loved.
(c) Understood.
(d) Good speakers.

3. What did Socrates say holiness was not?
(a) Just.
(b) Changeable.
(c) Teachable.
(d) Merciful.

4. Who defended Socrates?
(a) Callias.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Alcibiades.

5. What kind of education did Hippocrates want?
(a) Abstract.
(b) Literary.
(c) Philosophical.
(d) Liberal arts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT a piece of virtue according to Protagoras?

2. Which of the following did Socrates refuse to believe could be taught?

3. What was confusing about Protagoras's speech about virtue?

4. What did Protagoras say boys should learn while learning to read?

5. What did Socrates compare men to after Protagoras said there are some good things and some bad things for man?

(see the answer key)

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