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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Protagoras say statesmen made to teach virtue?
(a) Training grounds.
(b) Music halls.
(c) All of the answers are correct.
(d) Gymnasiums.

3. What poet did Protagoras say was really a dophist?
(a) Hesiod.
(b) Pericles.
(c) All of these.
(d) Homer.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem did Socrates see with Protagoras's program?

2. What was Pericles' occupation?

3. What was the one thing sophists tried to avoid?

4. What did Hippocrates NOT care about in his education?

5. What is a portico?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Protagoras want his pupils to become?

2. What did Hippocrates hope to learn from Protagoras?

3. How did Socrates respond when a door was slammed in his face?

4. What did Socrates say he would teach Protagoras in the dialogue and how?

5. What was trying to be proved when Simonides' poem was brought up?

6. Why did the men try to set up a mediator?

7. How did Protagoras think men got their wisdom?

8. What did Socrates do when he was questioned by Protagoras?

9. Whom did Simonides criticize in his poem?

10. What was Socrates' big talent during the dialogue?

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