As always, READ carefully and well before submitting your answers. It is best to REVISE, RE-READ, and EDIT before you finally hit the submit button. You can easily do this by saving your early answers as a draft. Then re-read the materials and come back to revise your answers.
The rubric tells you how your answers will be evaluated.
Spelling and grammar count, of course!
Be thorough but also succinct.
Use the readings to quote from and paraphrase so that your answers are concrete and supported.
1. In Plato’s allegory, what do the shadows on the wall represent?
2. According to Plato, how would the people in the cave react to one who leaves the cave, experiences reality outside the cave, and returns to explain this to former roommates?
3. What lesson is Plato attempting to teach with the story of the cave? Support your response with references to the text.
Now for questions about Buddha and the Four Noble Truths
4. Who was the Buddha, and what led him to discover the Four Noble Truths?
5. Summarize the Four Noble Truths in your own words.
6. What do Buddhists think causes suffering (dukkha)?
Now for your mini-essay. In two separate paragraphs provide ONE SIMILARITY between the Allegory of the Cave and the Four Noble Truths, and ONE CONTRAST.
Be concrete!
Please write formally, taking care with grammar (use complete sentences).
Be thorough, but be focused. Your similarity and contrast should be clear and concrete.
Use the texts to show what you mean.
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