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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 would be found at the equator?
(a) The entrance to hell.
(b) A large divide in the land.
(c) The origin of all living things.
(d) Heats too high for man to survive.

2. When did the model appear?
(a) Industrial Age.
(b) The stone ages.
(c) Middle Ages.
(d) Classical antiquity.

3. What did the medieval spirits become in Christian writing?
(a) Ghosts.
(b) Angels.
(c) Saints.
(d) Priests.

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

5. What about medieval men does Lewis call strange?
(a) All of these.
(b) Their traditions.
(c) Their authority.
(d) Their beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who cited Lucan for scientific purposes?

3. What does Lewis say it would be a mistake to think about the pagans and Christians?

4. What influence brought about the Seminal Period?

5. How did Chalcidius feel about Apulieius's doctrines?

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