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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the model?
(a) Ovid.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Dante's Divine Comedy.

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

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

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

5. What influence brought about the Seminal Period?
(a) Pagan.
(b) Christian.
(c) Medieval.
(d) Roman.

6. Why were those unaware of the model still affected by it?
(a) Their families were raised with it.
(b) The economic implications reached them.
(c) The priests taught by it.
(d) The writers wrote from it.

7. How did nature differ from the sky?
(a) Everything in nature changes.
(b) Nothing in nature changes.
(c) Nature is inhabited.
(d) Nature cannot be controlled.

8. What is the earliest date of a contributor to the model?
(a) 50 BC.
(b) 0 AD.
(c) 0 BC.
(d) 50 AD.

9. What is an Antipode?
(a) A mythological creature.
(b) A star.
(c) A region of earth.
(d) A kind of storm.

10. Which of these is the model a collection of?
(a) Beliefs.
(b) Powers.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Religions.

11. What kind of conflicts did Christians and pagans have?
(a) Real and imagined.
(b) Religious and political.
(c) Literary and historic.
(d) Intellectual and violent.

12. Where is Scipio Minor taken in Somnious Scipionis?
(a) Stellan.
(b) Stellanus.
(c) Stellarnium.
(d) Stellatum.

13. What about medieval men does Lewis call strange?
(a) All of these.
(b) Their authority.
(c) Their beliefs.
(d) Their traditions.

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

15. What word does Lewis use to describe how most thoughts about medieval man arise?
(a) Randomly.
(b) Sporadically.
(c) Spontaneously.
(d) Naturally.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did medieval man give a great amount of authority to?

2. How many sources contributed to the model?

3. Where did the souls of the just go according to medieval beliefs?

4. What was the great project of most medieval writers?

5. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

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