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

2. How did Lewis describe the authority medieval men gave to the written word?
(a) Slavish.
(b) Sacreligious.
(c) Peculiar.
(d) Powerful.

3. What does Lewis say the medieval mind had a desire to do?
(a) Organize ideas.
(b) Make new discoveries.
(c) Divine the future.
(d) See into the past.

4. How did Chalcidius feel about Apulieius's doctrines?
(a) He agreed with one of them.
(b) He opposed them.
(c) He agreed with them.
(d) He could find no scientific proof of them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What separated nature from the sky?

2. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?

3. Who began the idea of philosophical purity?

4. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?

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

(see the answer key)

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