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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI: The Longaevi.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis say it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?
(a) They had such easily disproved ideas.
(b) They were ahead of their times.
(c) They were unable to see the truth of matters.
(d) They believed in fanciful creatures.

2. What did medieval men think each planet had?
(a) Their own god.
(b) Their own form of time.
(c) Their own personality.
(d) Their own populations.

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

4. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?
(a) Randomly.
(b) Naturally.
(c) Imaginatively.
(d) Scientifically.

5. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?
(a) Scipio's History.
(b) Aristotle's writings.
(c) Plato's Philosophies.
(d) Cicero's Republic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

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

3. Who wrote about Amyclas?

4. Where would one find the fifth element?

5. What did medieval men like to make systems out of?

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