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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 does Somnious Scipionus mean?
(a) The Scorpion's Revenge.
(b) Reverence to Scipio.
(c) The Dream of the Scorpion.
(d) The Dream of Scipio.

2. What is an Antipode?
(a) A kind of storm.
(b) A region of earth.
(c) A mythological creature.
(d) A star.

3. Who cited Lucan for scientific purposes?
(a) Plato.
(b) Sophocles.
(c) Dante.
(d) Aristotle.

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

5. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?
(a) Foods.
(b) Routines.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was Amyclas the model of?

3. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?

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

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

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