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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. Who asked the question about the difference between becoming and being?

2. What did Protagoras say being a sophist can be?

3. What did Socrates warn Hippocrates about when he came to the house late at night?

4. Why did Socrates say temperance could not be a part of virtue?

5. What was the rival city to Athens?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did a man slam a door in Socrates' face?

3. How did Protagoras think men got their wisdom?

4. What did Protagoras say about evil men?

5. How did Protagoras say men learned virtue?

6. Why did Hippocrates stop by Socrates' house late at night?

7. What made Protagoras angry, and how did he respond to this?

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

9. What was trying to be proved when Simonides' poem was brought up?

10. Why did Protagoras say it was important to punish evil men?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Hippocrates was a person whose minor presence made a big difference in the discussion. How did he accomplish this? What are some ways that his presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if he had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 2

Protagoras used a very detailed analogy to present his idea on virtue. What was this analogy, what did it mean, and how did the people hearing this analogy respond to it?

Essay Topic 3

What are the different ideas given about love and virtue, and how did they differ from each other?

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