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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1, 70-78.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of speeches was Protagoras good at giving?
(a) Symbolic speeches.
(b) Rhetorical speeches.
(c) Memorized speeches.
(d) All of the answers are correct.

2. What did Socrates say all men should learn to do to gauge the greater good?
(a) How to compare themselves.
(b) How to calm others.
(c) How to use measurement.
(d) How to educate themselves.

3. What was unacceptable to Socrates in Protagoras's speech?
(a) The contradiction.
(b) The bad sources.
(c) The limited scope.
(d) The generalities.

4. Which of these did Socrates say shape also had?
(a) Comparison.
(b) Texture.
(c) Boundary.
(d) Objectivity.

5. Who did Protagoras say made it possible for every man to have access to something?
(a) Athena.
(b) The gods.
(c) The animals.
(d) Humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Socrates think men could actually learn from sophists?

2. Which of these was NOT one of the good things Socrates said men should want?

3. What poet did Protagoras say was really a dophist?

4. Who changed the method of inquiry in the dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras?

5. What did Socrates say controlled most men?

(see the answer key)

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