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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 Protagoras say made some men wrongly confident?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Madness.
(d) Love.

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

3. 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 for the wrong reasons.
(d) Getting them at the wrong times.

4. What was Gorgias's occupation?
(a) Senator.
(b) Speaker.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Builder.

5. How did Protagoras describe a good life?
(a) Particular.
(b) Pleasurable.
(c) Pleasing.
(d) Patient.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what did Protagoras charge fees?

2. What did Socrates say were teachers' real responsibility?

3. What kind of person did Socrates say could not lead a government?

4. What was the occupation of the father of the third party in the dialogue between Meno and Socrates?

5. What kind of definitions did Meno like best?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what did Anytus warn Socrates?

2. What did Socrates say about immediate pleasures?

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

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

5. What kind of things did Socrates say would bring long-term pleasures?

6. What was ironic about Socrates bringing up a poem from Pindar?

7. How did Socrates define fear?

8. What did Socrates do with Meno to try to discover what virtue was?

9. What did Protagoras feel ashamed about after Socrates' statements about poetry?

10. What did Meno compare his conversation to Socrates with, and why?

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