1. Why are the prisoners in chains?
2. What they doing to the prisoner when they project images onto the wall?
3. So when the prisoners talk, what are they talking about? If an object (a book, let us say) is carried past behind them, and it casts a shadow on the wall, and a prisoner says “I see a book,” what is he talking about?
4. He thinks he is talking about a book, but he is really talking about a shadow. But he uses the word “book.” What does that refer to?
5. What happen to the prisoner when he escapes?
6. What do the other prisoners do to the return prisoner? Why?
7 Are the masses capable of democratic government according to the reading. Explain clearly