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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Socrates see justice in opposition to?

2. Socrates makes the comparison: medicine is to sickness and justice is to _____.

3. According to Socrates, who are the second happiest people?

4. What does Socrates believe he can avoid in being corrected?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How can pain or pleasure be useful, in Socrates' opinion?

2. What makes Socrates see punishment (a negative action) as a positive one?

3. Why does Socrates compare medicine and gymnastics to legislation and justice?

4. In Socrates' opinion, why do rhetoricians and Sophists find it difficult to define themselves?

5. How does the philosophers' conversation of rhetoric incite discussions of broader subjects such as morality?

6. What is Socrates' differentiation between pleasures and gratifications in different skills?

7. Why can the art of rhetoric not impart knowledge, according to Gorgias?

8. Why does Socrates favor Gorgias' answers more than Polus'?

9. How does Gorgias see rhetoric aiding to the common good of humans?

10. When an unjust act is committed, Socrates asks whether the wrongdoer or the sufferer is more wretched. Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Socrates' and Callicles' views on the connection between happiness and humanity.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the nature of humanity based on their abilities to persuade and be persuaded as addressed by Gorgias.

Essay Topic 3

Develop your own argument for or against natural order or convention.

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