Central Ideas and Context: Utopia Answers

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What is the central idea of this passage?

The Utopians use pearls, diamonds, and carbuncles for trade.

The Utopians use valuables to gain an advantage over other societies

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

The Utopians allow only children to search for pearls, diamonds, and carbuncles.

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

They provide an example of how valuables are found, treated, and traded.

They state facts about different uses for valuables.

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

They give an anecdote about a time when these valuables were found and used for the good of the community.

What is the central idea of this passage?

The Utopians eat and drink out of brittle glasses.

The Utopians make their chamber-pots out of gold.

The Utopians use gold to make earrings and other valuable jewelry.

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.

The Utopians drink from glass cups.

The Utopians make chamber-pots out of gold.

The Utopians have public halls and private houses

The Utopians use gold to chain enslaved people.

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

What feature of English society is More most likely critiquing?

conflicts between kings and the church

greed and self-interest

exploration of new lands

an economy facing inflation

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