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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 medieval literature has a fixation on?
(a) Description.
(b) Lists.
(c) Details.
(d) Letters.
2. What attribute does Lewis say medieval writers had that modern ones do not?
(a) Pride.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Humilty.
(d) Confidence.
3. What did medieval man think guided the earthly spheres?
(a) God.
(b) Their own intelligence.
(c) Fairies.
(d) The prime mover.
4. What does Lewis say it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?
(a) They were ahead of their times.
(b) They had such easily disproved ideas.
(c) They believed in fanciful creatures.
(d) They were unable to see the truth of matters.
5. What did medieval writers think the world around them was a reflection of?
(a) The worlds of the dead.
(b) The goodness of God.
(c) The heavens.
(d) The sins and cruelty of man.
6. Which of these was NOT one of the kinds of souls believed in by medieval man?
(a) Rational.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Vegetative.
(d) Conscious.
7. Where would one find the fifth element?
(a) Beyond the sky.
(b) Underneath the earth.
(c) Outside the orbit of the moon.
(d) At the equator.
8. Who used the prime mover for his own purposes according to medieval beliefs?
(a) The devil.
(b) God.
(c) The moon.
(d) Man.
9. What does Lewis say can help people better understand the renaissance style of writing?
(a) Comparing the literture to other genres.
(b) All of these.
(c) Knowing about medieval culture.
(d) Reading more literature.
10. What is the tone of most medieval books?
(a) Informative.
(b) Angry.
(c) Imaginative.
(d) Joyful.
11. Which philosopher believed souls to be eternal?
(a) Augistine.
(b) Chalcidius.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.
12. What is considered a perfect shape by medieval man?
(a) Pentagon.
(b) Square.
(c) Circle.
(d) Triangle.
13. Who taught medieval man how the heavens moved?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Copernicus.
(d) Cicero.
14. Which soul was created by God?
(a) Rational.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Vegetative.
(d) Conscious.
15. What was most important to Dickens in his writing?
(a) The message of his book.
(b) The subject.
(c) The setting.
(d) His writing.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of writing did medieval writers enjoy that modern writers do not?
2. How many kinds of souls did medieval man think there were?
3. What did some people say the longaevi inhabited?
4. What did medieval man think guided the celestial spheres?
5. Why was zoology such a studied science?
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