Central Ideas and Context: Utopia – Flashcards

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They find pearls on their coasts, and diamonds and carbuncles on their rocks; they do not look after them, but, if they find them by chance, they polish them, and with them they adorn their children, who are delighted with them . . . This excerpt is most likely More's reaction to his society's
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NOT Exploration
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Central idea: Utopians strive to make gold and silver less valuable. Which statement provides a critique of the central idea?
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It is a waste to use gold for everyday purposes, because it is hard to find.
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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. The central idea of this excerpt is that Utopians make a regular effort to care for those in need. Which detail best supports this central idea?
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Towns with an abundance provide for those with less.
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When writing a critique, a reader first finds the central idea and supporting details, then
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NOT Gives evidence to support a position.
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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 . . . What is the central idea of this excerpt?
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Utopians are surprised by the great value placed on jewels, cloth, and gold.
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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. As they came to treat of affairs of great consequence, the deputies from several towns met together to wait for their coming. The ambassadors of the nations that lie near Utopia, knowing their customs, and that fine clothes are in no esteem among them, that silk is despised, and gold is a badge of infamy, used to come very modestly clothed; but the Anemolians, lying more remote, and having had little commerce with them, understanding that they were coarsely clothed, and all in the same manner, took it for granted that they had none of those fine things among them of which they made no use; and they, being a vainglorious rather than a wise people, resolved to set themselves out with so much pomp that they should look like gods, and strike the eyes of the poor Utopians with their splendor. What is the central idea of this excerpt?
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The Utopians are not concerned about dressing fashionably.
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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. Which historical fact will best help readers understand this excerpt?
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Explorers during this period went to the New World in search of scarce resources.
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A text's central ideas are always
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Supported by key details
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Central idea: Utopians distribute wealth to care for all people. Which statement provides a critique of the central idea?
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Taking from the wealthy to feed the poor discourages hard work.
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Which should be included in a critique? Check all that apply.
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1. The central idea 2. Supporting details 3. The reader's position 4. Supporting evidence
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Utopia
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A term used to describe an ideal, imaginary society where conditions are perfect, created by Sir Thomas More
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The Utopian characteristic of "Government based on logic and reason" is in response to
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Conflicts between Kings and the Church
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The Utopian characteristic of "Society that does not value gold and symbols of wealth" is in response to
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Greed, self-interest, and the unequal distribution of wealth
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The Utopian characteristic of "Imaginary land in a far off place" is in response to
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The exploration of the New World
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. . . Since they have no use for money among themselves, but keep it as a provision against events which seldom happen, and between which there are generally long intervening intervals, they value it no farther than it deserves—that is, in proportion to its use. So that it is plain they must prefer iron either to gold or silver, for men can no more live without iron than without fire or water; but Nature has marked out no use for the other metals so essential as not easily to be dispensed with. What is the central idea of this passage?
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The Utopians value money less than other, more useful things.
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Which detail best provides an example to illustrate the central idea that follows? The Utopians value money less than other, more useful things.
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"They must prefer iron either to gold or silver, for men can no more live without iron than without fire or water"
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They find pearls on their coasts, and diamonds and carbuncles on their rocks; they do not look after them, but, if they find them by chance, they polish them, and with them they adorn their children, who are delighted with them, and glory in them during their childhood; but when they grow to years, and see that none but children use such baubles, they of their own accord, without being bid by their parents, lay them aside, and would be as much ashamed to use them afterwards as children among us, when they come to years, are of their puppets and other toys.
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What is the central idea of this passage? The Utopians give valuables to children, who treat them as toys. How do the details about how the Utopians treat valuables develop the central idea? They make an analogy between children outgrowing playing with valuables and children outgrowing playing with toys.
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They eat and drink out of vessels of earth or glass, which make an agreeable appearance, though formed of brittle materials; while they make their chamber-pots and close-stools of gold and silver, and that not only in their public halls but in their private houses. Of the same metals they likewise make chains and fetters for their slaves, to some of which, as a badge of infamy, they hang an earring of gold, and make others wear a chain or a coronet of the same metal; and thus they take care by all possible means to render gold and silver of no esteem . . .
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What is the central idea of this passage? The Utopians work hard to make gold and silver seem less valuable Which details develop the central idea by giving examples of ways the Utopians make gold and silver less valuable? Check all that apply. 1. The Utopians make chamber-pots out of gold. 2. The Utopians use gold to chain enslaved people. What feature of English society is More most likely critiquing? Greed and self-interest
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Which line from Utopia is an example of an anecdote?
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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."
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