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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V: The Heavens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What side of the medieval debate did Aristotle side with?
(a) Nominalism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Socialism.

2. What did Macrobius think was the center of the universe?
(a) The moon.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The sun.
(d) The earth.

3. Which of the following is NOT one of Chalcidius's parts of his Triad?
(a) The executive.
(b) The sovereign.
(c) The judicial.
(d) The subject.

4. What did medieval man give a great amount of authority to?
(a) The stars.
(b) Preachers.
(c) Books.
(d) Nature.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where would one find the fifth element?

2. Who taught medieval man how the heavens moved?

3. What does Lewis say the medieval mind had a desire to do?

4. What did medieval men use to predict things?

5. What does Lewis say the model should NOT be?

(see the answer key)

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