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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jupiter cause men to do?
(a) Confront their fears.
(b) Lose their minds.
(c) Find happiness.
(d) Realize their truths.

2. Which of the following was NOT something worshiped in medieval times?
(a) Centaurs.
(b) Wizards.
(c) Fairies.
(d) Elves.

3. What did Mars cause men to do?
(a) Go to war.
(b) Fall in love.
(c) Speak with boldness.
(d) Overcome illness.

4. What does Lewis say it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?
(a) They believed in fanciful creatures.
(b) They were ahead of their times.
(c) They were unable to see the truth of matters.
(d) They had such easily disproved ideas.

5. What does "longaevi" mean?
(a) Larger than life.
(b) Long lived.
(c) Long width.
(d) Learned.

6. What topic diverted some writers while writing about other subjects?
(a) Politics.
(b) Free will.
(c) The Heavens.
(d) God.

7. What did medieval psychology deal with?
(a) The body.
(b) The mind.
(c) The conscience.
(d) The soul.

8. What does Lewis say about the medieval beliefs in the things they worshiped?
(a) They were always changing.
(b) It was central to their lives.
(c) There were no fixed beliefs.
(d) It was unproductive.

9. Which kind of soul gave the power to see and move?
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Conscious.
(c) Vegetative.
(d) Rational.

10. Who did medieval man think led the rebellion of fallen angels?
(a) Hades.
(b) The first man.
(c) Satan.
(d) The prime mover.

11. Where would one find the fifth element?
(a) At the equator.
(b) Underneath the earth.
(c) Beyond the sky.
(d) Outside the orbit of the moon.

12. What did medieval man think guided the celestial spheres?
(a) The prime mover.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Their own intelligence.
(d) God.

13. How is modern writing different from medieval writing?
(a) We want more description.
(b) We read about real people.
(c) We don't like fantasy as much.
(d) We are more involved in the plot.

14. Which of the following was NOT commonly written about in renaissance literature?
(a) Religion.
(b) Common Sense.
(c) Biology.
(d) Anatomy.

15. Who did those who called the longaevi a fallen class think they were?
(a) Servants of the devil.
(b) Rebellious dead.
(c) Fallen angels.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did some great medieval writers sometimes make lists of in the middle of their books?

2. Which of these was NOT one of the kinds of souls believed in by medieval man?

3. What did renaissance writers sometimes make great stretches to include in their work?

4. What attribute does Lewis say medieval writers had that modern ones do not?

5. What was the prime mover trying to imitate?

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