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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Chalcidius feel about Apulieius's doctrines?
(a) He agreed with them.
(b) He agreed with one of them.
(c) He opposed them.
(d) He could find no scientific proof of them.

2. What does Lewis say did NOT affect the model?
(a) Religious movements.
(b) Great debates.
(c) Opinions.
(d) Controversy.

3. Why is it hard to determine what Chalcidius's religion was?
(a) He never wrote about his beliefs.
(b) He writes both pagan and Christian literature.
(c) He moved from place to place.
(d) He was loved by both sides.

4. What was philosophy supposed to be free of in order to be pure?
(a) Theology.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Bias.

5. How did Lewis describe the debate of nominalism?
(a) Heated.
(b) Historic.
(c) All of these.
(d) Important.

6. What is the model a reflection of?
(a) History of the world.
(b) Traditions of the time.
(c) Philosophy of the time.
(d) Education of the time.

7. What did Macrobius think would be found at the equator?
(a) Heats too high for man to survive.
(b) The entrance to hell.
(c) A large divide in the land.
(d) The origin of all living things.

8. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?
(a) Atheism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Paganism.

9. How did Lewis describe the authority medieval men gave to the written word?
(a) Peculiar.
(b) Sacreligious.
(c) Slavish.
(d) Powerful.

10. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?
(a) Randomly.
(b) Scientifically.
(c) Naturally.
(d) Imaginatively.

11. What in the sky changed regularly?
(a) The inhabitants.
(b) The orbits.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Everything.

12. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?
(a) Plato's Philosophies.
(b) Cicero's Republic.
(c) Scipio's History.
(d) Aristotle's writings.

13. What was the model a backdrop for?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Painters.
(d) Writers.

14. What separated nature from the sky?
(a) The orbit of the moon.
(b) The horizon.
(c) The passing of the sun.
(d) The ocean tides.

15. What influence brought about the Seminal Period?
(a) Medieval.
(b) Pagan.
(c) Roman.
(d) Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many types of dreams did Macrobius say existed?

2. How does Lewis label the model?

3. What was medieval philosophy supposed to always be separated from?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of Chalcidius's parts of his Triad?

5. What was realism opposed to?

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