Allegory of the Caves

The Allegory of the Cave was written by...

• Plato
• Socrates
• Sartre
• Descartes

The Allegory of the Cave, like most of Plato's writing, is a ...

• play
• essay
• dialogue
• movie

In the allegory, the prisoners represent...

• philosophers forced to live among the nomal people
• people who do not realize that they are not seeing reality
• Aristotle's students
• students at Dakota High School

According to Plato, the escaped prisoners who leave the cave are like...

• philosophers who are closer to the Forms
• students who study mathematics
• artists who represent the Forms in a much closer way than we see reality
• students who get to leave during tutorial

In the allegory, the sun represents...

• the philosopher poet
• the Form of Beauty
• the Form of Good
• death

Because Plato believes in ideals called Forms and in using reason and rationality to find the truth, he is considered a ...

• existentialist
• idealist/rationalist
• skeptic
• empiricist