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

2. How many types of dreams did Macrobius say existed?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. Which of the following was a medieval writer?
(a) Sophocles.
(b) Aquinas.
(c) Cicero.
(d) Boethius.

4. Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the model?
(a) The Bible.
(b) Dante's Divine Comedy.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Ovid.

5. Why were those unaware of the model still affected by it?
(a) The writers wrote from it.
(b) Their families were raised with it.
(c) The priests taught by it.
(d) The economic implications reached them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis say causes men to think the way they do about medieval man?

2. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?

3. Who began the idea of philosophical purity?

4. What was philosophy supposed to be free of in order to be pure?

5. What in the sky changed regularly?

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