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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis say it would be a mistake to think about the pagans and Christians?
(a) They were similar in some way.
(b) They were totally opposite.
(c) They could live peacable together.
(d) There was a bold line defining them.

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

3. Which of the following did Lewis say medieval men worshiped?
(a) Cats.
(b) Moths.
(c) Books.
(d) None of these.

4. What was the model a backdrop for?
(a) Writers.
(b) Painters.
(c) Farmers.
(d) Priests.

5. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?
(a) It was left unfinished.
(b) The reader is left not knowing the interpretation.
(c) The translator added his own opinion in.
(d) It was not recorded chronologically.

6. What does Lewis say some people view the medieval man as?
(a) All of these.
(b) Simple.
(c) Less civilized.
(d) Barbaric.

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

8. What did Scipio Minor say is insignificant while he is in the sky?
(a) World ambitions.
(b) Change.
(c) Creativity.
(d) Choice and accountability.

9. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?
(a) Having it written in a book.
(b) Hearing it from a priest.
(c) Seeing signs in the sky.
(d) Divining it from nature.

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

11. What is the model a reflection of?
(a) Education of the time.
(b) History of the world.
(c) Philosophy of the time.
(d) Traditions of the time.

12. Which of these was the model also centered around?
(a) People.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Religion.
(d) Values.

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

14. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Atheism.

15. What writer did Chalcidius adore?
(a) Lucan.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Sohpcles.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the earliest date of a contributor to the model?

3. What in the sky changed regularly?

4. What was Amyclas the model of?

5. What did Macrobius think was the center of the universe?

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