The Allegory of the Cave

The speaker would likely agree with which of the following statements?

• Laughter is sometimes an appropriate response to pity.

• Knowledge can be given from teacher to student.

• Human nature is influenced by its environment.

• Goodness and virtue are innate and cannot be learned.

• He is happy who is dazzled by excess light.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The speaker evidently believes a good education would be based on-

• indulgence

• asceticism

• hedonism

• curiosity

• achievement

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

In the phrase "the very same faculty in them" from the text , the antecedent of "them" is-

• impediments

• natures

• pleasures

• weights

• eyes

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The phrase "such nature" refers to those described by which of the following adjectives-

• blind

• divine

• hurtful

• useful

• clever

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

According to the speaker, which of the following descriptions most accurately characterizes "virtue of wisdom"?

• It is "innate" and unchangeable

• It is improved by "habit."

• It is subject to variation.

• It is "useful and profitable."

• It can be "forced into....service."

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

According to Plato, the gap is widest between-

• cleverness and wisdom

• intelligence and mischievous[ness]

• habit and exercise

• narrow and eager

• paltry and keen

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

The Allegory of the Cave was written by...

• Plato
• Socrates
• Sartre
• Descartes

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In the allegory, the prisoners represent...

• philosophers forced to live among the normal people

• people who do not realize that they are not seeing reality

• Aristotle's students

• students at Dakota High School

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.2

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

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In the allegory, the sun represents...

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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.9

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CCSS.RL.8.4

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