Central Ideas and Context: Utopia

Question 1

What is the central idea of this passage?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: The Utopians give valuables to children, who treat them as toys.

Question 2

How do the details about how the Utopians treat valuables develop the central idea?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

C: They make an analogy between children outgrowing playing with valuables and children outgrowing playing with toys.

Question 3

What is the central idea of this passage?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

D: The Utopians work hard to make gold and silver seem less valuable

Question 4

Which details develop the central idea by giving examples of ways the Utopians make gold and silver less valuable? Check all that apply.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: The Utopians make chamber-pots out of gold.; D: The Utopians use gold to chain enslaved people.

Question 5

What feature of English society is More most likely critiquing?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

B: greed and self-interest

Central Ideas and Context: Utopia Answers