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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 is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Friendship.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Lust.

2. Which of these is the model a collection of?
(a) Religions.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Powers.
(d) Traditions.

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

4. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?
(a) It was all encompassing.
(b) It was not important.
(c) It was hard to define.
(d) It was not based on religion.

5. Why does Lewis not give full credit to the model?
(a) It was too broad.
(b) All of these.
(c) It was not sensitive enough to change.
(d) It was not moved by the debates.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

2. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?

3. What was nominalism opposed to?

4. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?

5. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?

(see the answer key)

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