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Republic 7

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The allegory of the cave illustrates ___.

a)

justice

b)

spiritedness/θυμὀς

c)

the laws about women

d)

the mental powers of the Divided Line

2.

When the caveman is chained, seeing only shadows on the wall before him, he illustrates ___ on the Divided Line.

a)

intellect

b)

thought

c)

trust of the senses

d)

imagination

3.

When the caveman is unchained and sees the objects that made the shadows on the wall before the other cave people, he illustrates ___ on the Divided Line.

a)

intellect

b)

thought

c)

trust of the senses

d)

imagination

4.

When the caveman exits the cave and sees trees, animals, etc., he illustrates ___ on the Divided Line.

a)

intellect

b)

thought

c)

trust of the senses

d)

imagination

5.

When the caveman, now outside the cave, looks up and sees the sun itself, he illustrates ___ on the Divided Line.

a)

intellect

b)

thought

c)

trust of the senses

d)

imagination

6.

After his journey from the shadows to seeing the sun, the caveman must ___.

a)

find other caves to visit

b)

never enter another cave

c)

bring the other cave people out of the cave

d)

return to the cave.

7.

What sort of study can help "lead souls up to the light?"

a)

mathematics

b)

geometry

c)

astronomy

d)

harmony

e)

all options are true

8.

Mathematics, geometry, etc. should be studied ___.

a)

from childhood on

b)

only once physical education has been completed

c)

after the age of fifty

d)

when a student is around twenty to twenty-five

9.

Dialectic is studied only after age 50 because it ___.

a)

teaches people to question what they believe

b)

could destabilize a society if practiced incorrectly

c)

requires much life experience if it is to be beneficial

d)

all options are correct

10.

In the allegory of the cave, the sun - for the second time in the Republic - represents ___.

a)

justice

b)

spiritedness/θυμὀς

c)

desire

d)

the good/τὸ καλὀν