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

2. Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the model?
(a) Ovid.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Dante's Divine Comedy.

3. What did the medieval men have to reconcile in their culture?
(a) Contradicting statements.
(b) Tribal differences.
(c) Time changes.
(d) Values that go against nature.

4. What is an Antipode?
(a) A region of earth.
(b) A kind of storm.
(c) A mythological creature.
(d) A star.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Lewis label the model?

3. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

4. When did the model appear?

5. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?

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