Allegory of the Cave

Allegory of the Cave

9th - 12th Grade

6 Qs

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Allegory of the Cave

Allegory of the Cave

Assessment

Quiz

English

9th - 12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.9-10.9, RL.11-12.9, RI. 9-10.7

+11

Standards-aligned

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

6 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Allegory of the Cave was written by...
Plato
Socrates
Sartre
Descartes

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Allegory of the Cave, like most of Plato's writing, is a ...
play
essay
dialogue
movie

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.K.6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the allegory, the sun represents...
the philosopher poet
the Form of Beauty
the Form of Good
death

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.K.6