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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the great project of most medieval writers?
(a) To explore the ideas and thought processes of man.
(b) To record as much history as possible.
(c) To make connections among differing beliefs in books.
(d) To bring a vast level of education to all men.

2. Why was zoology such a studied science?
(a) Men depended on animals.
(b) Animals were worth a lot of money.
(c) They were used to study medicine.
(d) They were connected to humans.

3. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?
(a) It was not recorded chronologically.
(b) The reader is left not knowing the interpretation.
(c) It was left unfinished.
(d) The translator added his own opinion in.

4. What did medieval men think only a wise man could do?
(a) Resist the influence of the planets.
(b) Divine the future by studying the past.
(c) Ignore astrology.
(d) See into the future.

5. What does Lewis say about the medieval beliefs in the things they worshiped?
(a) They were always changing.
(b) It was central to their lives.
(c) There were no fixed beliefs.
(d) It was unproductive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the places where Chalcidius saw evidence of the Triad?

2. Which of these is the model a collection of?

3. What word does Lewis use to describe how most thoughts about medieval man arise?

4. What did medieval psychology deal with?

5. What does Lewis say it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?

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