rhetoric - Southern California

Question

In a dialogue, a practitioner of this activity defends its ability to teach arete, or virtue. For 10 points each:

[10m] What activity was practiced by sophists? Cicero advised practitioners of this activity to use memory palaces.

ANSWER: rhetoric [or oratory or word forms; accept De Oratore; prompt on public speaking]

[10e] This author of the dialogue The Sophist criticized the sophists for using rhetoric for their own benefit. Nevertheless, this thinker argued that philosopher-kings should tell a “noble lie” in his dialogue Republic.

ANSWER: Plato [or Platon]

[10h] Plato also wrote dialogues titled for Gorgias and this other sophist, who defended relativism with the statement “man is the measure of all things.”

ANSWER: Protagoras

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Summary


Northern California	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southern California	Main	Y	7	11.43	100%	14%	0%
Eastern Canada (1)	Main	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
Eastern Canada (2)	Main	Y	9	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	12	15.00	100%	42%	8%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	12	11.67	100%	17%	0%
Midwest	Main	Y	9	13.33	100%	22%	11%
North	Main	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Northeast	Main	Y	12	14.17	100%	33%	8%
Pacific	Main	Y	9	13.33	89%	33%	11%
South Central	Main	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Southeast	Main	Y	13	13.85	100%	31%	8%
UK (North)	UK	Y	5	14.00	100%	0%	40%
UK (South)	UK	Y	8	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%

Data


USC B	UC Irvine	0	10	10
UC Santa Barbara	UCLA B	0	10	10
UCLA A	Claremont C	0	10	10
UCLA C	Claremont B	0	10	10
UCSD A	UCLA D	0	10	10
UCLA E	UCLA F	0	10	10
UCSD B	Claremont A	10	10	20