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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 all men have an immediate response to?
(a) Their environment.
(b) Theis upbringing.
(c) Their emotions.
(d) Their thoughts.

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

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

4. What does Somnious Scipionus mean?
(a) The Dream of Scipio.
(b) The Dream of the Scorpion.
(c) The Scorpion's Revenge.
(d) Reverence to Scipio.

5. What was nominalism opposed to?
(a) Realism.
(b) Grantism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Plebianism.

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

7. How did Lewis describe the debate of nominalism?
(a) All of these.
(b) Important.
(c) Heated.
(d) Historic.

8. Who does Chacidius borrow from to expand the Doctrine of the Triad?
(a) Plato.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Apulieus.

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

10. According to Lewis, which is NOT used by most people when thinking about medieval man?
(a) Research.
(b) Rigorous thought.
(c) Belief.
(d) Understanding.

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

12. What does Lewis say the medieval mind had a desire to do?
(a) See into the past.
(b) Divine the future.
(c) Make new discoveries.
(d) Organize ideas.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

2. What does Lewis say the model was NOT?

3. Why is it hard to determine what Chalcidius's religion was?

4. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

5. How many types of dreams did Macrobius say existed?

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