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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who stole fire?
(a) Venus.
(b) Prometheus.
(c) Athena.
(d) Epimetheus.

4. What were fables used to teach boys?
(a) All of the answers are correct.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Reading.
(d) History.

5. Why were sophists accused of taking something away from families?
(a) They are bold and loud.
(b) They teach young pupils.
(c) They teach strange ideas.
(d) They teach in far away places.

6. What did Socrates have to do to be allowed to ask questions again?
(a) Answer to the mediator.
(b) Take a break.
(c) Control his temper.
(d) Answer some questions.

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

8. What did Socrates say was not a teachable craft?
(a) Equity.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Politics.
(d) Religion.

9. Who was made to look foolish when the poem by Simonides was brought up?
(a) All of the answers are correct.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Simonides.
(d) Protagoras.

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

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

12. What did Hippocrates NOT care about in his education?
(a) Learning truth.
(b) Impressing others.
(c) Getting money.
(d) Speaking better.

13. What was confusing about Protagoras's speech about virtue?
(a) It was contradictory.
(b) It had too many unrelated elements.
(c) The words were too obscure.
(d) He cited strange sources.

14. Why did a porter slam a door in Socrates' face?
(a) He was instructed to do so.
(b) Socrates had no money.
(c) Socrates said something rude.
(d) He thought he was a sophist.

15. What did Callias not allow Socrates to do?
(a) Use fables to prove a point.
(b) Leave his house,
(c) Insult Protagoras.
(d) Enroll his son in Protagoras's program.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Protagoras compare the parts of virtue?

2. At whose house was Protagoras staying?

3. Who was asked about the difference between becoming and being?

4. Which of the following was something Protagoras did NOT teach in his course?

5. Why did they try to set up a mediator?

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