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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Gorgias claim is the basis for all arts and sciences?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Rhetoric.
2. Socrates uses the comparison: medicine is to gymnastics as justice is to ______.
(a) Legislation.
(b) Soul.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Prison.
3. Why does Socrates regard Gorgias' answers as useful?
(a) Because he understands rhetoric now.
(b) Because they are unique.
(c) Because they are precise.
(d) Because he is well educated.
4. What does Socrates believe rhetoricians and Sophists are confused with?
(a) Their art.
(b) Their objective.
(c) Justice.
(d) Society.
5. According to Socrates, what do politics preside over?
(a) Emotions.
(b) Soul.
(c) Body.
(d) Beliefs.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does rhetoric benefit politicians in Gorgias' musings on politics?
2. In Socrates' opinion, why is music useless?
3. Gorgias believes the ability to do what has the most possibility for the greatest good?
4. How does Gorgias say one should use power?
5. What does the discussion of rhetoric between Gorgias and Socrates turn into?
Short Essay Questions
1. What makes Socrates see punishment (a negative action) as a positive one?
2. How have we seen rhetoric successfully executed in the conversation in Chapter 1?
3. In Socrates' opinion, what is the effect of someone with great power who has little common sense?
4. Why does Socrates favor Gorgias' answers more than Polus'?
5. What are the similarities and differences between learning and acquiring a belief?
6. Why can the art of rhetoric not impart knowledge, according to Gorgias?
7. What role does knowledge and justice play in learning and practicing rhetoric?
8. In Socrates' opinion, why is distinction crucial to individuals and professions?
9. Is Polus' claim that even unjust people like Archelaus are happy correct or incorrect? Why?
10. Why does Socrates believe that it is important for a wrongdoer's soul be brought to justice?
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