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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 did medieval men think each planet had?
(a) Their own personality.
(b) Their own god.
(c) Their own populations.
(d) Their own form of time.

2. Educated men in what age were most impacted by the model?
(a) Industrial Age.
(b) Middle Ages.
(c) Classical antiquity.
(d) Modern times.

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

4. What did Jupiter cause men to do?
(a) Find happiness.
(b) Confront their fears.
(c) Realize their truths.
(d) Lose their minds.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was historically important for the Middle Ages?

2. Who taught medieval man how the heavens moved?

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

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

5. Where would one find the fifth element?

(see the answer key)

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