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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Amyclas's occupation?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Preacher.

2. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?
(a) Having it written in a book.
(b) Divining it from nature.
(c) Seeing signs in the sky.
(d) Hearing it from a priest.

3. What does Lewis say it would be a mistake to think about the pagans and Christians?
(a) They were totally opposite.
(b) They could live peacable together.
(c) There was a bold line defining them.
(d) They were similar in some way.

4. What did the medieval spirits become in Christian writing?
(a) Saints.
(b) Angels.
(c) Ghosts.
(d) Priests.

5. What did Macrobius usually write about?
(a) The power of education.
(b) The protection of nature.
(c) The need for love and kindness.
(d) The origin of the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What influence brought about the Seminal Period?

2. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?

3. Who wrote about Amyclas?

4. What other element of medieval times were effected by the model?

5. Why were those unaware of the model still affected by it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Boethius's most important work, and what was it about?

2. Who was Amyclas, and how was he important in literature?

3. What is the model?

4. What does the story of Cato and Marcia provide in literature?

5. How did Macrobius come to the aid of Cicero and Plato when the benefits of fiction were questioned?

6. How did Macrobius clean up Somnium Scipius?

7. How did Lewis say the pagans view nature in their writing?

8. What did medieval men give a lot of authority and credence to?

9. Who was Boethius?

10. How does Lewis say the medieval culture differs from most uncivilized cultures?

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