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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) Values that go against nature.
(b) Tribal differences.
(c) Contradicting statements.
(d) Time changes.

2. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?
(a) Their ideas.
(b) Their beliefs.
(c) Their rituals.
(d) Their values.

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. What was medieval philosophy supposed to always be separated from?
(a) Religion.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Biology.
(d) History.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?

2. Why does Lewis not give full credit to the model?

3. How does Lewis label the model?

4. Who began the idea of philosophical purity?

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

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