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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 element of medieval times were effected by the model?
(a) Agricultural.
(b) Social.
(c) Authoritative.
(d) Religious.

2. How does Lewis feel about the popular beliefs about medieval man?
(a) He partly agrees.
(b) He disagrees.
(c) He finds it rediculous.
(d) He agrees.

3. What did medieval man give a great amount of authority to?
(a) Books.
(b) The stars.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Nature.

4. Who worked the hardest at reconciling things in medieval times?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Civilians.
(c) Writers.
(d) Kings.

5. Why is it hard to determine what Chalcidius's religion was?
(a) He was loved by both sides.
(b) He writes both pagan and Christian literature.
(c) He never wrote about his beliefs.
(d) He moved from place to place.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Lewis describe the authority medieval men gave to the written word?

2. How did the medieval mind differ from the modern mind?

3. What other element of medieval times were effected by the model?

4. What was realism opposed to?

5. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?

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