Central Ideas and Context: Utopia

Question 1

Thomas More wrote Utopia during a period of

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increased prosperity and a growing middle class.

Question 2

Which line from Utopia is an example of an anecdote, a brief story or account of an event used to make a larger point?

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I never saw a clearer instance of the opposite impressions that different customs make on people than I observed in the ambassadors of the Anemolians, who came to Amaurot when I was there.

Question 3

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the king and church leaders

Question 4

find details to support the author’s central idealook to discover the text’s most important ideaexamine and explain their position on a central ideawrite an analogy that explains the text’s main idea

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examine and explain their position on a central idea

Question 5

Central idea: Utopians strive to make gold and silver less valuable.

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It is a waste to use gold for everyday purposes, because it is hard to find.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from Utopia.The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can look up to a star or to the sun himself; or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of a finer thread; for, how fine soever that thread may be, it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep, and that sheep, was a sheep still, for all its wearing it. They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed that even man, for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than this metal . . .

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Utopians are surprised by the great value placed on jewels, cloth, and gold.

Question 7

Which should be included in a critique? Select 4 options.the central ideathe historical contextsupporting detailsthe reader’s positionsupporting evidence

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the central idea; supporting details; the reader’s position; supporting evidence

Question 8

Read the excerpt from Utopia.But after the ambassadors had stayed a day among them, and saw so vast a quantity of gold in their houses (which was as much despised by them as it was esteemed in other nations), and beheld more gold and silver in the chains and fetters of one slave than all their ornaments amounted to, their plumes fell, and they were ashamed of all that glory for which they had formed valued themselves, and accordingly laid it aside . . .

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anecdote.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from Utopia.The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity; whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.

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Explorers during this period went to the New World in search of scarce resources.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from Utopia.In their great council at Amaurot, to which there are three sent from every town once a year, they examine what towns abound in provisions and what are under any scarcity, that so the one may be furnished from the other; and this is done freely, without any sort of exchange; for, according to their plenty or scarcity, they supply or are supplied from one another, so that indeed the whole island is, as it were, one family.

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Towns with an abundance provide for those with less.

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