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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. Gorgias classifies rhetoric is an art that deals with what?
(a) Words.
(b) Thoughts.
(c) Religion.
(d) People.

2. What does Socrates believe is worse than being poor or sick?
(a) Prison.
(b) Injustice.
(c) Hunger.
(d) Death.

3. What does Socrates claim should be the primary obligation of a politician?
(a) Keeping himself in power.
(b) The expansion of the country.
(c) The improvement of the people.
(d) Making money.

4. Who does Callicles believe can destroy legislation?
(a) Europe.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Strong people.
(d) Lawmakers.

5. Because Socrates regards being in a courtroom as being among justice, what does he suggest is the best line of defense?
(a) To increase the number of police.
(b) Never to commit injustice.
(c) To have better education.
(d) To have smaller government.

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates uses the comparison: medicine is to gymnastics as justice is to ______.

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

3. Callicles uses Hercules as an example of how convention justifies what?

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

5. What does Polus believe is the emotional state of unjust people?

(see the answer key)

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