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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 Lewis say the model should NOT be?
(a) A central authority.
(b) A concrete idea.
(c) An exaggeration.
(d) A direct image of the time.

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

3. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?
(a) Seeing signs in the sky.
(b) Having it written in a book.
(c) Divining it from nature.
(d) Hearing it from a priest.

4. 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.

5. What did Aristotle's writings not interfere with?
(a) Socialism.
(b) The model.
(c) Nominalism.
(d) Realism.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the medieval mind differ from the modern mind?

2. Educated men in what age were most impacted by the model?

3. What about medieval men does Lewis call strange?

4. Which of these was the model also centered around?

5. How did Scipio Minor plan to meet the gods?

(see the answer key)

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