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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 is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?
(a) Friendship.
(b) Lust.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Adultery.

2. Where did the souls of the just go according to medieval beliefs?
(a) The sky.
(b) The ocean.
(c) Nature.
(d) The stars.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis say the medieval mind had a desire to do?

2. What separated nature from the sky?

3. What was historically important for the Middle Ages?

4. What about medieval men does Lewis call strange?

5. Who do Christians say created nature?

(see the answer key)

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