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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. Whom did Simonides criticize?
(a) Protagoras.
(b) Philomel.
(c) Pittacus.
(d) Phillipi.

2. What did Protagoras say he was the best for teaching young men?
(a) Politics.
(b) Mythology.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Justice.

3. What was unacceptable to Socrates in Protagoras's speech?
(a) The limited scope.
(b) The generalities.
(c) The contradiction.
(d) The bad sources.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Protagoras say being a sophist can be?

2. What did Socrates want Protagoras to define in his speech?

3. Which of the following did Socrates refuse to believe could be taught?

4. What did Socrates say could never be taught?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Protagoras make money?

2. What frustrated Socrates when he was speaking with Protagoras?

3. What did Protagoras say about evil men?

4. Why did Protagoras say many sons of leaders were not great leaders?

5. Whom did Simonides criticize in his poem?

6. What made Protagoras angry, and how did he respond to this?

7. How did Protagoras say men learned virtue?

8. Why did Protagoras say it was important to punish evil men?

9. What did Prodicus say was the difference between being a good man and becoming a good man?

10. What made Socrates angry, and how did he respond to this?

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