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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2, line 78-87.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Protagoras say every man had access to?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Faith.
(d) Virtue.

2. Why did Protagoras not have a true hometown?
(a) He traveled for a living.
(b) He was an orphan.
(c) His town was destroyed.
(d) He was banished from his town.

3. Who changed the method of inquiry in the dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Protagoras.
(c) Prodicus.
(d) Simonides.

4. How often did Protagoras say his students would improve?
(a) Hourly.
(b) Daily.
(c) Monthly.
(d) Weekly.

5. What did Socrates say controlled most men?
(a) Pleasures.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates equate with being good?

2. What was the rival city to Athens?

3. What did Hippocrates tell Socrates when he stopped by the house late at night?

4. Why did Protagoras say it never paid to conceal sophist beliefs?

5. Who was made to look foolish when the poem by Simonides was brought up?

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