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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII (515-527).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What determines if someone should receive a fee for their services, in Socrates' idea?
(a) If they are trying to achieve good.
(b) If they have a college education.
(c) If they arrive on time.
(d) If they do not ask for payment.

2. Gorgias believes the ability to do what has the most possibility for the greatest good?
(a) Educate.
(b) Relate.
(c) Comprehend.
(d) Persuade.

3. Socrates believes that what is good while ugly can be delimited by what?
(a) Pleasures.
(b) Experience.
(c) Politics.
(d) Pain.

4. What is the only way citizens can improve, in Socrates' opinion?
(a) When they are re-educated.
(b) When they are cared for.
(c) When they are controlled.
(d) When they are treated harshly.

5. What does Socrates believe a soul that lacks control is?
(a) Lonely.
(b) Frightened.
(c) Lost.
(d) Unjust.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates say friendship, self-control, sharing, and justice maintain order between?

2. What does rhetoric engage, in Gorgias' opinion?

3. Callicles criticizes Socrates because he believes what influences Socrates?

4. In Socrates' opinion, what does the body maintain when it dies?

5. What does Socrates not intend to do in his arguments?

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