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

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

3. Who cited Lucan for scientific purposes?
(a) Dante.
(b) Plato.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Aristotle.

4. Which of these was the model centered on?
(a) Nature.
(b) The earth.
(c) The universe.
(d) Theology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was it ironic for Lucan to be cited for scientific purposes?

2. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?

3. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?

4. Who do Christians say created nature?

5. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

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