Explanation
Passage
Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, taught that the things of the world around us are merely copies or "shadows" of greater, eternal realities. He used a metaphor of people living inside a cave to convey his ideas. The people inside the cave could not see the world outside the cave, they could only see shadows of people and animals as they passed by. Plato was suggesting that the shadows would seem very real and alive to the people inside the cave, because that was all they had ever seen of the outside world. But these shadows were not the real, living creatures of the outside world, they were merely reflections of them. Plato's point was that this temporal world is a____________ some greater, eternal reality.
Question: The word that would most accurately fit the blank at the end of the second paragraph is:
(A) Shadow
(B) Picture
(C) Contradiction
(D) Reversal
Question: The underlined word 'convey', as used in this passage, most accurately means:
(A) Give birth to
(B) Rationalize
(C) Experiment
(D) Explain
Question: What is the main idea of Plato's cave analogy?
(A) This world is not all there is.
(C) Humans are stupid.
(B) Mankind cannot hope to see the truth.
(D) Real things cast shadows.
Questions: Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?,
(A) Life in a Cave
(B) Making Shadow Puppets
(C) Perception and Reality most nearly means:
(D) Is Their Life After Death
Question:The underlined word temporal, as used in the passage,
(A) Imaginary
(B) Hypothetical
(C) Old-fashioned
(D) Temporary
