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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many parts of virtue did Protagoras say there were?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

2. Which of the following did Protagoras say sex caused?
(a) Disease.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Pleasure.

3. What was the occupation of the father of the third party in the dialogue between Meno and Socrates?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Sophist.
(c) Business man.
(d) Senator.

4. What kind of entertainment did Socrates say poetry was?
(a) Middle class.
(b) Progressive.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Second rate.

5. How could a man not be virtuous when acquiring good things?
(a) Getting them in the wrong quantities.
(b) Getting them through bad methods.
(c) Getting them at the wrong times.
(d) Getting them for the wrong reasons.

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

7. What did Socrates compare men to when talking to Meno?
(a) Flies.
(b) Beetles.
(c) Spiders.
(d) Bees.

8. For what did Protagoras charge fees?
(a) Singing.
(b) Writing.
(c) Teaching.
(d) Counseling.

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

10. Who ended the dialogue between Protagoras and Socrates?
(a) Plato.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Protagoras.
(d) Meno.

11. For what kind of party did Socrates say poetry was appropriate?
(a) Philosophical parties.
(b) Literary Parties.
(c) Political parties.
(d) Wine parties.

12. What major element did Socrates use in his argument against Protagoras?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metaphors.
(d) Irony.

13. Whom did Socrates say was good all the time?
(a) The gods.
(b) Animals.
(c) Men.
(d) Women.

14. What did Pindar call knowledge?
(a) Memories.
(b) Learning.
(c) Stimulation.
(d) Wisdom.

15. What part of knowledge did Socrates say was hard to identify?
(a) The source.
(b) The effects.
(c) The cause.
(d) The role.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical device did Socrates use when talking about pain measurement?

2. What part of man did Pindar say was immortal?

3. Who often schemed to conquer Greece in Socrates' time?

4. How did Protagoras describe a good life?

5. Which of these did Socrates say shape also had?

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