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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of person would not have heard of the model?
(a) Lower citizens.
(b) Medieval scholars.
(c) Priests.
(d) Educated people.

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the places where Chalcidius saw evidence of the Triad?
(a) Nature.
(b) Man.
(c) Politics.
(d) God's relation with man.

3. What was historically important for the Middle Ages?
(a) Heated debates.
(b) Writings.
(c) Religious fervor.
(d) The model.

4. What other element of medieval times were effected by the model?
(a) Economic.
(b) Geographical.
(c) Traditional.
(d) Educational.

5. What does Lewis say separates the medieval man from savages?
(a) Their religion.
(b) Their thirst for knowledge.
(c) Their strict traditions.
(d) Their ideals.

6. What did Aristotle's writings not interfere with?
(a) Nominalism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) The model.

7. Which of these was the model centered on?
(a) Theology.
(b) The universe.
(c) The earth.
(d) Nature.

8. What did medieval men like to make systems out of?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Employment.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Books.

9. As defined by pagans, what did nature include?
(a) The living things.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The earth.
(d) Everything.

10. Which of the following is NOT one of Chalcidius's parts of his Triad?
(a) The executive.
(b) The judicial.
(c) The sovereign.
(d) The subject.

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

12. Who was Amyclas NOT intimidated by?
(a) Caesar.
(b) Cicero.
(c) His wife.
(d) His god.

13. Who worked the hardest at reconciling things in medieval times?
(a) Civilians.
(b) Kings.
(c) Writers.
(d) Philosophers.

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

15. What side of the medieval debate did Aristotle side with?
(a) Nationalism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Nominalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What element of medieval times were effected by the model?

2. When did the model appear?

3. Who does Chacidius borrow from to expand the Doctrine of the Triad?

4. What did the medieval spirits become in Christian writing?

5. What separated nature from the sky?

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