Do you think Plato's dialogue format is an effective way to make an argument?

Yes

Explanation:

Socratic irony is used to weed out the good arguments from the bad by a method that is similar to the scientific method. That is, Socrates would ask a series of questions, and discard the arguments which became absurd when subjected to scrunity (reductio ad absurdum), eventually arriving at the correct conclusions.

a true

explanation:

the word that best sums up the tone of the newspaper regarding the treaty of versailles is resentful.