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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Macrobius think was the center of the universe?
(a) The sun.
(b) The moon.
(c) The earth.
(d) The heavens.

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

3. What was Amyclas's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Farmer.
(d) Preacher.

4. Why does Lewis not give full credit to the model?
(a) All of these.
(b) It was too broad.
(c) It was not sensitive enough to change.
(d) It was not moved by the debates.

5. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?
(a) A repetition of events.
(b) An oracle.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) A vision.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

2. What in the sky changed regularly?

3. Who was Amyclas NOT intimidated by?

4. Which of these was the model centered on?

5. What does Lewis say the model was NOT?

(see the answer key)

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