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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) The Bible.
(b) Dante's Divine Comedy.
(c) Virgil.
(d) Ovid.

2. How many types of dreams did Macrobius say existed?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?
(a) Thought process.
(b) Values.
(c) Belligerance.
(d) Diligence.

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

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

12. What does Lewis say the model was NOT?
(a) Movable.
(b) Flexible.
(c) Sensitive.
(d) Tangible.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?

2. What does Lewis say did NOT affect the model?

3. Who worked the hardest at reconciling things in medieval times?

4. What is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?

5. What kind of person would not have heard of the model?

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