Allegory Quiz

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2/9/24, 2:15 AM Feedback https://southtexascollege.blackboard.com/ultra/courses/_371324_1/grades/assessment/_18081907_1/overview/attempt/_34240919_1/review/inline-fe… 1/4 Show answer choices Show answer choices Show answer choices Question 1 After he is mocked for returning to the cave and trying to share is new ideas, the freed prisoner leaves the cave and returns to the outside world. After some time, the freed prisoner concludes that _____ he is the smartest of all the prisoners, and intellectual growth stops with him. despite the prospect of facing ridicule and even death, he must go back to try to free and enlighten the prisoners for the greater good. ignorance can't be cured, and the cave people should stay there. the ignorant people in the cave should be executed because their ideas are dangerous Question 2 The guard eventually takes the freed prisoner outside the cave. How does the freed prisoner eventually feel, living outside the cave? Awful. He never adjusts, and demands to return to the safety of the cave. He realizes that he can privatize the sense of enlightenment he feels outside of the cave by bottling it and selling it back to the prisoners in side the cave. He feels scared and uncomfortable at first, however, he eventually adjusts and realizes that the sun is the true source of all enlightenment and life, and prefers it. Question 3 We know that the shadows are just that: shadows. The prisoners, however, do not. How do they interpret the shadows projected on the wall?
2/9/24, 2:15 AM Feedback https://southtexascollege.blackboard.com/ultra/courses/_371324_1/grades/assessment/_18081907_1/overview/attempt/_34240919_1/review/inline-fe… 2/4 Show answer choices Show answer choices they have developed a whole system of ideas, a whole worldview and set of beliefs, based on the 'shadows' on the wall; essentially, their whole understanding of reality. they only take them for shadows because they have figured out, critically, that the shapes are nothing more than shadows Question 4 Inside the cave, the prisoners have stared at shadows on a wall their whole lives, which they believe are not shadows, but are their ______ puppets reality they are aware they are in a cave, so they know it's not real. shadow puppetteers Question 5 When the prisoner who has been freed eventually returns to the cave, he communicates to his former prisoner mates about the reality and life beyond 'the cave'. How are his ideas received by the people still in the cave? The prisoners are civil and open to his ideas on life beyond the cave, and agree to a friendly debate. With doubt and resentment. The prisoners mock him and exile him for threatening their ideas. The prisoners totally embrace his ideas. The prisoners award him with the highest degrees possible.
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