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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where did medieval man think God dwelled?
(a) The moon.
(b) Heaven.
(c) The equator.
(d) The sky.

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

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

9. What is thought to be at fault for people thinking medieval scholars had the wrong idea about the shape of the earth?
(a) Ruined historical documents.
(b) Loud rebels.
(c) Bad maps.
(d) Incorrect literature.

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

11. What is a point of modern contention about the longaevi?
(a) Their creation.
(b) Their powers.
(c) Their purpose.
(d) Their reality.

12. What did Lewis say was most notable about renaissance literature?
(a) Their knowledge.
(b) Their theories.
(c) Their experience.
(d) Their confidence.

13. What was the prime mover trying to imitate?
(a) Nature.
(b) The orbit of the moon.
(c) God's perfection.
(d) The presentation of the earth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is modern writing different from medieval writing?

3. Where would one find the fifth element?

4. What was said to govern the chance events that happened on earth?

5. Who did medieval man think led the rebellion of fallen angels?

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