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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV (480-491).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Socrates specify makes advantageous actions not beneficial?
(a) When they are only short-term.
(b) When only a few people benefit.
(c) When they are achieved unjustly.
(d) When they are achieved uncreatively.

2. In Socrates' philosophy, in an unjust act, who feels greater evil?
(a) The family of the victim.
(b) The one who suffers injustice.
(c) The one who commits injustice.
(d) Society as a whole.

3. Chapter I states there cannot be false and true what?
(a) Stories.
(b) Arguments.
(c) Belief.
(d) Knowledge.

4. What kind of people does Socrates believe rhetoric can influence?
(a) People with no knowledge.
(b) People who are desperate.
(c) People with children.
(d) People who care.

5. According to Socrates, what is the key ingredient in determining who a person becomes?
(a) How much money they have.
(b) How they are raised.
(c) What they know.
(d) What evil they are exposed to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?

2. What does Socrates claim is the effect on society by categorizing bad and ugly?

3. What challenge is Gorgias being faced with?

4. What, according to Socrates, is the only way for remarks like Callicles' to be credible?

5. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?

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