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

2. Why was the poem about Simonides brought up?
(a) To change the subject.
(b) To prove Protagoras's point.
(c) To show the depth of education.
(d) To reveal a social interchange.

3. Who defended Socrates?
(a) Alcibiades.
(b) Pericles.
(c) Hippocrates.
(d) Callias.

4. What did Socrates say was the opposite of fair?
(a) Foul.
(b) None of the answers is correct.
(c) Justice.
(d) Mercy.

5. Why did Socrates say the rival city to Athens was so great?
(a) Their military force.
(b) Their social system.
(c) Their wisdom.
(d) Their physical health.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the audience respond to Protagoras's speech about virtue?

2. Why did Protagoras say it never paid to conceal sophist beliefs?

3. What is the one thing everything has according to Socrates?

4. What benefit did Protagoras say wealthy men had over poor men?

5. What did Socrates say was not a teachable craft?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Socrates respond when a door was slammed in his face?

2. To what did Protagoras compare the attributes of virtue?

3. What did Protagoras want his pupils to become?

4. What made Socrates angry, and how did he respond to this?

5. Why did the men try to set up a mediator?

6. What did Protagoras do to change the tone of the dialogue?

7. Why was Socrates so hesitant to support Hippocrates in studying with Protagoras?

8. What did Prodicus say was the difference between being a good man and becoming a good man?

9. What did Socrates say he would teach Protagoras in the dialogue and how?

10. What frustrated Socrates when he was speaking with Protagoras?

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