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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was unacceptable to Socrates in Protagoras's speech?

2. Why did they try to set up a mediator?

3. What did Socrates say Hippocrates is letting be molded?

4. What did Protagoras say boys should learn while learning to read?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Protagoras think men got their wisdom?

2. What was Protagoras's big talent during the dialogue?

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

4. What did Protagoras say statesmen had done to promote virtue?

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

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

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

8. What did Protagoras want his pupils to become?

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

10. Why did Hippocrates stop by Socrates' house late at night?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are Protagoras's ideas about persuasion, and how did Socrates respond to these ideas?

Essay Topic 2

Protagoras used a very detailed analogy to present his idea on virtue. What was this analogy, what did it mean, and how did the people hearing this analogy respond to it?

Essay Topic 3

The people in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select two people and write their main motivation throughout the book, discussing how this goal affected the people around them.

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