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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 usually write about?
(a) The origin of the world.
(b) The need for love and kindness.
(c) The power of education.
(d) The protection of nature.

2. What did medieval man give a great amount of authority to?
(a) Nature.
(b) The stars.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Books.

3. What does Lewis say some people view the medieval man as?
(a) Barbaric.
(b) Simple.
(c) All of these.
(d) Less civilized.

4. What was the model a backdrop for?
(a) Writers.
(b) Painters.
(c) Priests.
(d) Farmers.

5. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?
(a) The translator added his own opinion in.
(b) It was not recorded chronologically.
(c) The reader is left not knowing the interpretation.
(d) It was left unfinished.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who worked the hardest at reconciling things in medieval times?

2. What was the great project of most medieval writers?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of Chalcidius's parts of his Triad?

4. What does Lewis say all men have an immediate response to?

5. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?

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