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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: Selected Materials: The Classical Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lewis say the model should NOT be?
(a) A concrete idea.
(b) An exaggeration.
(c) A direct image of the time.
(d) A central authority.

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

4. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?
(a) Seeing signs in the sky.
(b) Divining it from nature.
(c) Having it written in a book.
(d) Hearing it from a priest.

5. What word does Lewis use to describe how most thoughts about medieval man arise?
(a) Spontaneously.
(b) Naturally.
(c) Sporadically.
(d) Randomly.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did Lewis describe the debate of nominalism?

3. How did Scipio Minor plan to meet the gods?

4. What did the medieval men have to reconcile in their culture?

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

(see the answer key)

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