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

2. Which of the following is NOT one of Chalcidius's parts of his Triad?
(a) The subject.
(b) The sovereign.
(c) The executive.
(d) The judicial.

3. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?
(a) A repetition of events.
(b) A vision.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) An oracle.

4. Which of the following did Lewis say medieval men worshiped?
(a) Cats.
(b) Moths.
(c) Books.
(d) None of these.

5. What did Aristotle's writings not interfere with?
(a) Nominalism.
(b) Socialism.
(c) The model.
(d) Realism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?

2. Who does Chacidius borrow from to expand the Doctrine of the Triad?

3. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?

4. What writer did Chalcidius adore?

5. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Dionysius split up the different groups of angels?

2. How did medieval writers feel about Dionysius's work, and why is this so ironic?

3. What did most medieval writers spend a great deal of their time doing?

4. What does Lewis say the model is a reflection of?

5. According to Lewis, who were the two most noteworthy medieval writers?

6. What does Lewis say it is important not to see the model as?

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

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

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

10. What did medieval men like to organize and systematize?

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