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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV: Selected Materials: The Seminal Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis say the medieval mind had a desire to do?
(a) See into the past.
(b) Make new discoveries.
(c) Divine the future.
(d) Organize ideas.

2. What did medieval men like to make systems out of?
(a) Books.
(b) Traditions.
(c) Employment.
(d) Ideas.

3. What was historically important for the Middle Ages?
(a) Writings.
(b) Religious fervor.
(c) Heated debates.
(d) The model.

4. Who worked the hardest at reconciling things in medieval times?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Civilians.
(c) Writers.
(d) Kings.

5. Why was it ironic for Lucan to be cited for scientific purposes?
(a) He was not educated.
(b) He has never traveled.
(c) He was not a scientist.
(d) He claimed to be stupid.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Scipio Minor taken in Somnious Scipionis?

2. Where did the souls of the just go according to medieval beliefs?

3. Which of these was the model also centered around?

4. Who do Christians say created nature?

5. How did Scipio Minor plan to meet the gods?

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