Question

Part B: What quotation from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A. "And having done all that, by this time he would also be able to gather the following about the sun: (1) that it is also the cause of all those things that the people dwelling in the cave have before [their] eyes in some way or other."

B. "If he again recalled his first dwelling, and the 'knowing that passes as the norm there and the people with whom he once was chained, don't you think he would consider himself lucky because of the transformation that had happened and, by contrast, feel sorry for them?"

C. "People live under the earth in a cave-like dwelling. Stretching a long way up toward the daylight is its entrance, toward which the entire cave is gathered. The people have been in this dwelling since childhood, shackled by the legs and neck..."​

Answer 1

A

Step-by-step explanation:

"And having done all that, by this time he would also be able to gather the following about the sun: (1) that it is also the cause of all those things that the people dwelling in the cave have before [their] eyes in some way or other."