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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III (470-479).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Socrates believes the classification of arts and sciences is what?
(a) Excessive.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Arbitrary.
(d) Objective.

2. What is Polus meant to be an example of?
(a) How to argue with Socrates.
(b) The effects of a corrupt government.
(c) The negative effects of freedom.
(d) The ignorance of youth.

3. According to Socrates, who are the second happiest people?
(a) Those who get married.
(b) Those who only briefly suffer.
(c) Those who are healthy.
(d) Those who deliver others from evil.

4. What does Gorgias claim is the basis for all arts and sciences?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Rhetoric.

5. Why does Socrates ask to be corrected and criticized?
(a) So he can challenge them back.
(b) So he can condescend to them.
(c) So he does not feel guilty about monopolizing the conversation.
(d) So he may improve.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?

2. Chapter I states there can be false and true what?

3. Why does Socrates believe wrongdoers who go unpunished are more wretched than the punished?

4. In Socrates' opinion, who are the happiest people?

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

(see the answer key)

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