Plato and Philosophical Concepts Quiz

According to Plato, true knowledge is:

• Based on sensory experience

• Unchanging and eternal

• Relative to culture

• Based on popular opinion

Which realm holds the perfect and eternal truths according to Plato?

• World of Appearances

• World Soul

• World of Forms

• World of Matter

Plato believes that learning is actually:

• Memorizing facts

• Receiving instruction from teachers

• Remembering truths the soul once knew

• Acquiring knowledge through books

The Form of the Good is:

• The same as the sun

• The lowest in Plato’s hierarchy

• The source of all truth and knowledge

• A material object

In Plato’s hierarchy, abstract concepts like justice and beauty are:

• Forms of Material Objects

• Higher Forms

• Mathematical Forms

• Illusions

Mathematical Forms include:

• Ideas like courage and bravery

• Shapes, numbers, and equations

• Emotions and feelings

• Dreams and illusions

The physical world, for Plato, is:

• More real than the World of Forms

• A source of ultimate truth

• Imperfect and ever-changing

• Located in the World Soul

In the allegory, the cave represents:

• The World of Forms

• The World Soul

• The World of Appearances and Ignorance

• A heavenly place

The prisoners in the cave symbolize:

• Philosophers

• People who uncritically accept sensory experience

• Government leaders

• Mathematicians

The sun in the allegory stands for:

• The fire of knowledge

• The Form of the Good

• A physical source of heat

• A god