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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who do Christians say created nature?
(a) God.
(b) Christ.
(c) Adam.
(d) Michael.

4. Who cited Lucan for scientific purposes?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Sophocles.
(d) Dante.

5. Why was it ironic for Lucan to be cited for scientific purposes?
(a) He has never traveled.
(b) He was not a scientist.
(c) He claimed to be stupid.
(d) He was not educated.

6. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?
(a) Their beliefs.
(b) Their ideas.
(c) Their rituals.
(d) Their values.

7. What was realism opposed to?
(a) Cathechism.
(b) Nominalism.
(c) Religiousism.
(d) Plebianism.

8. What separated nature from the sky?
(a) The ocean tides.
(b) The passing of the sun.
(c) The orbit of the moon.
(d) The horizon.

9. Which of the following was a medieval writer?
(a) Dante.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Milton.

10. When did the model appear?
(a) The stone ages.
(b) Industrial Age.
(c) Classical antiquity.
(d) Middle Ages.

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

12. How does Lewis label the model?
(a) A reservation.
(b) An ideal.
(c) A standard.
(d) A tradition.

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

14. What in the sky changed regularly?
(a) The orbits.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Everything.
(d) The inhabitants.

15. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?
(a) Traditions.
(b) Foods.
(c) Routines.
(d) Beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the places where Chalcidius saw evidence of the Triad?

3. What did Macrobius usually write about?

4. What word does Lewis use to describe how most thoughts about medieval man arise?

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

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