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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 did medieval men think only a wise man could do?
(a) Divine the future by studying the past.
(b) See into the future.
(c) Ignore astrology.
(d) Resist the influence of the planets.

2. 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) Hearing it from a priest.
(d) Divining it from nature.

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

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

5. Who does Chacidius borrow from to expand the Doctrine of the Triad?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Apulieus.
(c) Plato.
(d) Chaucer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did medieval man think led the rebellion of fallen angels?

2. What was the prime mover trying to imitate?

3. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?

4. What does Lewis say it would be a mistake to think about the pagans and Christians?

5. What was nominalism opposed to?

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