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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was most important to Dickens in his writing?
(a) The message of his book.
(b) His writing.
(c) The setting.
(d) The subject.

2. Who used the prime mover for his own purposes according to medieval beliefs?
(a) The moon.
(b) God.
(c) The devil.
(d) Man.

3. What does Lewis say medieval literature has a fixation on?
(a) Description.
(b) Details.
(c) Lists.
(d) Letters.

4. What attribute does Lewis say medieval writers had that modern ones do not?
(a) Pride.
(b) Humilty.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Contentment.

5. How was the third species of creation thought to be created in medieval times?
(a) Ideas and dreams come to life.
(b) Offspring of the gods.
(c) Children of men and angels.
(d) Nature gone awry.

6. What does Lewis say makes medieval literature dull and boring?
(a) The details.
(b) The tone.
(c) The lists.
(d) The similarities in the books.

7. What did the thought of demonic spirits lead the Longeavi to being?
(a) Administering angels.
(b) Abolished.
(c) Appalled.
(d) Admonished.

8. What did some people say the longaevi inhabited?
(a) Dreams.
(b) Natural elements.
(c) Planets.
(d) Thoughts and ideas.

9. Which of these was NOT one of the kinds of souls believed in by medieval man?
(a) Vegetative.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Rational.
(d) Conscious.

10. Who did medieval man think caused men to rebel against God?
(a) Fallen angels.
(b) longaevi.
(c) Satan.
(d) Their inner beings.

11. What did medieval writers think the world around them was a reflection of?
(a) The goodness of God.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The sins and cruelty of man.
(d) The worlds of the dead.

12. What did the medieval people call the fifth element?
(a) Aether.
(b) Walther.
(c) Filther.
(d) Grinther.

13. What is considered a perfect shape by medieval man?
(a) Circle.
(b) Square.
(c) Pentagon.
(d) Triangle.

14. What was a flawed art in the Middle Ages?
(a) Pressing.
(b) Cartography.
(c) Printing.
(d) Caligraphy.

15. What doctrine helped some men understand the longaevi?
(a) The doctrine of astrology.
(b) The doctrine of the triad.
(c) The doctrine of longevity.
(d) The doctrine of plentitude.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following was NOT commonly written about in renaissance literature?

3. What did medieval men think only a wise man could do?

4. What was the third species thought to have similar with men?

5. What does Lewis say it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?

(see the answer keys)

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