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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII: The Influence of the Model.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Macrobius usually write about?
(a) The power of education.
(b) The origin of the world.
(c) The need for love and kindness.
(d) The protection of nature.

2. What kind of conflicts did Christians and pagans have?
(a) Religious and political.
(b) Real and imagined.
(c) Intellectual and violent.
(d) Literary and historic.

3. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?
(a) It was left unfinished.
(b) The reader is left not knowing the interpretation.
(c) The translator added his own opinion in.
(d) It was not recorded chronologically.

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

5. What does Lewis say makes medieval literature dull and boring?
(a) The similarities in the books.
(b) The lists.
(c) The tone.
(d) The details.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

2. What was realism opposed to?

3. Which of the following was NOT commonly written about in renaissance literature?

4. What did medieval men like reading about the most?

5. Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the model?

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