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Plato and the cave

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was a student of Socrates?

a)

Plato

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Aristotle

d)

Heraclitus

2.

What is the name of Plato's famous allegory?

a)

allegory of the cave

b)

allegory of the cavern

c)

allegory of the prisoner

d)

allegory of the philosophy king

3.

Which is NOT a feature of the cave allegory ?

a)

fire

b)

walkway

c)

candle

d)

shadow

e)

sunlight

4.

What could the prisoners only see on the cave wall?

a)

fire

b)

shadows

c)

people crossing the walkway

d)

the cave wall

e)

sunlight

5.

Which feature of Plato's cave analogy represents the philsopher?

a)

The fire

b)

The shadows

c)

The chained prisoner

d)

The escaped prisoner

e)

The sun

6.

Which Philosopher wrote about Socrates in his works?

a)

Aristotle

b)

Plato

7.

What do the chained prisoners in the cave analogy represent?

a)

ignorance

b)

intelligence

c)

philosophy

d)

curiosity

8.

Plato is also considered the founder of Western political philosophy.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

Plato was born in

a)

Rome

b)

Athens

c)

China

d)

Spain

10.

Believed that the world is a shadow of the true reality.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

What was the idea behind Plato's Cave theory?

a)

that people are sometimes are trapped without real understanding.

b)

the people should hide in a cave to get away from other people.

c)

Answers are always found in a cave.

d)

seek to find the truth

12.

What method was used to understand the way that other think and feel?

a)

Plato's method

b)

Aristotle's method

c)

Socratic method

d)

philosopher's method

13.

What did others not like Socrates?

a)

he was strange

b)

he was evil

c)

he caused riots

d)

corrupted youth and disturbed gods

14.

Plato was not very interested in his own studies as a young student.

a)

True

b)

False

15.

Plato chose to focus on philosophy most importantly in his studies.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Plato founded the first university in Athens called...

a)

The University

b)

The Academy

c)

The College

d)

The School

17.

Plato wanted his students to explore who they were and......

a)

Reason

b)

Questioning

c)

Human nature

d)

Logic

18.

Plato is not considered the founder of Western political philosophy.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Plato was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Plato founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy.

a)

True

b)

False