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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did the medieval mind differ from the modern mind?
(a) They were very scientific.
(b) They never made snap judgements.
(c) They were very faithful.
(d) They had no pre-concevied notions.

3. What was philosophy supposed to be free of in order to be pure?
(a) Theology.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Bias.
(d) Paganism.

4. Who wrote about Amyclas?
(a) Milton.
(b) Dante.
(c) Aquian.
(d) Lucan.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who began the idea of philosophical purity?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Chalcidius.
(d) Plebius.

11. What does Lewis say causes men to think the way they do about medieval man?
(a) Their education.
(b) Their environment.
(c) Their upbringing.
(d) Their misinformation.

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

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

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

15. Educated men in what age were most impacted by the model?
(a) Classical antiquity.
(b) Modern times.
(c) Middle Ages.
(d) Industrial Age.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?

2. How did nature differ from the sky?

3. Which of the following did Lewis say medieval men worshiped?

4. What was the model a backdrop for?

5. What does Lewis say it would be a mistake to think about the pagans and Christians?

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