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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. 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 economic implications reached them.
(d) The priests taught by it.

2. What is the model a reflection of?
(a) Education of the time.
(b) Traditions of the time.
(c) Philosophy of the time.
(d) History of the world.

3. What does Lewis say the medieval mind had a desire to do?
(a) Make new discoveries.
(b) See into the past.
(c) Organize ideas.
(d) Divine the future.

4. Why was it ironic for Lucan to be cited for scientific purposes?
(a) He was not educated.
(b) He claimed to be stupid.
(c) He was not a scientist.
(d) He has never traveled.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What writer did Chalcidius adore?

2. Where did the souls of the just go according to medieval beliefs?

3. What was the model a backdrop for?

4. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?

5. What did Scipio Minor say is insignificant while he is in the sky?

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