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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these is the model a collection of?
(a) Traditions.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Powers.
(d) Religions.
2. 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 was not educated.
(d) He claimed to be stupid.
3. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?
(a) Thought process.
(b) Belligerance.
(c) Diligence.
(d) Values.
4. What did Macrobius think would be found at the equator?
(a) Heats too high for man to survive.
(b) The origin of all living things.
(c) The entrance to hell.
(d) A large divide in the land.
5. Which of the following was a medieval writer?
(a) Milton.
(b) Dante.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Aristotle.
6. Who began the idea of philosophical purity?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Chalcidius.
(d) Plebius.
7. Where did the souls of the just go according to medieval beliefs?
(a) The ocean.
(b) Nature.
(c) The sky.
(d) The stars.
8. How does Lewis label the model?
(a) A tradition.
(b) A standard.
(c) An ideal.
(d) A reservation.
9. What did Scipio Minor say is insignificant while he is in the sky?
(a) Creativity.
(b) Choice and accountability.
(c) Change.
(d) World ambitions.
10. Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the model?
(a) Dante's Divine Comedy.
(b) Virgil.
(c) Ovid.
(d) The Bible.
11. How many sources contributed to the model?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Six.
12. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?
(a) Their rituals.
(b) Their values.
(c) Their ideas.
(d) Their beliefs.
13. What writer did Chalcidius adore?
(a) Sohpcles.
(b) Lucan.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.
14. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?
(a) A vision.
(b) A repetition of events.
(c) An oracle.
(d) A nightmare.
15. What does Lewis say all men have an immediate response to?
(a) Theis upbringing.
(b) Their thoughts.
(c) Their emotions.
(d) Their environment.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was philosophy supposed to be free of in order to be pure?
2. How does Lewis feel about the popular beliefs about medieval man?
3. What did Macrobius think was the center of the universe?
4. Which of these was the model centered on?
5. What was the great project of most medieval writers?
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