View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Protagoras say an evil man would always admit to being?
(a) Good.
(b) Honest.
(c) Evil.
(d) Strange.

2. What did Protagoras say men received at the creation?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Skills.
(c) Souls.
(d) Claws.

3. What did Protagoras want his students to become after studying with him?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Men.
(d) Leaders.

4. Who focused the debate on semantics?
(a) Protagoras.
(b) Prodicus.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Socrates.

5. What did Socrates want Protagoras to define in his speech?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Statesmen.
(c) Leadership.
(d) Justice.

6. Why did Protagoras say it never paid to conceal sophist beliefs?
(a) Lies are contrary to the soul.
(b) Everyone would find out.
(c) They are natural and correct.
(d) The idea will stifle and die.

7. What did Simonides write?
(a) Stories.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Speeches.
(d) Philosophy.

8. Why did they try to set up a mediator?
(a) To monitor the audience.
(b) To control Protagoras.
(c) To control Socrates.
(d) To monitor the questions.

9. Which of the following did Socrates refuse to believe could be taught?
(a) Faith.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Strength.
(d) Belief.

10. What did Protagoras say the animals received at the creation?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Claws.
(c) Souls.
(d) Skills.

11. Why did Protagoras say many ordinary men were not virtuous?
(a) They were never taught.
(b) They were too busy.
(c) They did not see the lessons in their life.
(d) They were not naturally born with it.

12. Why did so many men want to become sophists?
(a) All of the answers are correct.
(b) They wanted to become politicians.
(c) They wanted to be more persuasive.
(d) They wanted to be good speakers.

13. Whose sons did Protagoras say never learned virtue?
(a) Hippolytus's.
(b) Zeus's.
(c) Socrates'.
(d) Pericles'.

14. What did Socrates say was the opposite of wisdom?
(a) Temperance.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Folly.

15. In what city did Socrates live?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Delphi.
(c) Thessaly.
(d) Athens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asked the question about the difference between becoming and being?

2. What was unacceptable to Socrates in Protagoras's speech?

3. What was the main question Socrates asked Hippocrates when he came by the house late at night?

4. As what was Protagoras known?

5. What did Protagoras say statesmen made to teach virtue?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 375 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample