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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) Merchant.
(b) Farmer.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Preacher.

2. What was Amyclas the model of?
(a) A husband and father.
(b) An ambitious teacher.
(c) A noble poor man.
(d) An educated being.

3. What is an Antipode?
(a) A region of earth.
(b) A star.
(c) A kind of storm.
(d) A mythological creature.

4. What influence brought about the Seminal Period?
(a) Pagan.
(b) Christian.
(c) Medieval.
(d) Roman.

5. How did nature differ from the sky?
(a) Nature cannot be controlled.
(b) Nothing in nature changes.
(c) Nature is inhabited.
(d) Everything in nature changes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was historically important for the Middle Ages?

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

3. What did Macrobius usually write about?

4. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

5. What, according to Macrobius, was a visum?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Lewis say the pagan and Christian views of spirits differ?

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

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

5. What is the doctrine of plentitude?

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

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

8. What does Lewis say makes the model less valid than it could have been?

9. What did the model serve as a backdrop for?

10. How were people unaware of the model affected by it still?

(see the answer keys)

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