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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. With whom was Protagoras especially popular?
(a) Young women.
(b) Children.
(c) Young men.
(d) Old men.

2. What did Socrates say all men should learn to do to gauge the greater good?
(a) How to calm others.
(b) How to compare themselves.
(c) How to educate themselves.
(d) How to use measurement.

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

4. Why did Socrates say men liked to look at dancers?
(a) So they could be aroused.
(b) So they could feel motivated.
(c) So they did not have to converse.
(d) So they could express their emotions.

5. What did Protagoras feel ashamed for while talking with Socrates?
(a) Spouting his beliefs.
(b) Giving long speeches.
(c) Trying to evade him.
(d) Insulting sophists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates think men could actually learn from sophists?

2. Which of these was NOT one of the good things Socrates said men should want?

3. What did Protagoras see as courage in men?

4. What did Socrates say controlled most men?

5. What kind of diet did Socrates promote in his statement about pain?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Socrates define fear?

2. What did Socrates say happened when we learned new things?

3. Why did Socrates say he could not teach virtue?

4. Why did Socrates compare men to bees?

5. How did Socrates use the idea of geometry in his discussion about pleasure?

6. What was Meno's main complaint while talking to Socrates?

7. Why did Meno not like the idea of virtuous living involving the acquisition of nothing?

8. How did Meno try to define virtue?

9. What was the first thing Meno asked Socrates?

10. How did Socrates feel about poetry?

(see the answer keys)

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