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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 is the model a reflection of?
(a) Philosophy of the time.
(b) History of the world.
(c) Education of the time.
(d) Traditions of the time.

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

3. What did the medieval men have to reconcile in their culture?
(a) Contradicting statements.
(b) Values that go against nature.
(c) Tribal differences.
(d) Time changes.

4. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?
(a) It was not important.
(b) It was hard to define.
(c) It was not based on religion.
(d) It was all encompassing.

5. What does Lewis say separates the medieval man from savages?
(a) Their religion.
(b) Their strict traditions.
(c) Their ideals.
(d) Their thirst for knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?

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

3. What was medieval philosophy supposed to always be separated from?

4. What did medieval men like to make systems out of?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the model?

3. What is the doctrine of plentitude?

4. Who was Boethius?

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

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

7. What does Lewis say the process is for most people when they make their opinion of medieval men and practices?

8. What two philosophies did Apulieus bring to light?

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

10. What is the doctrine of the triad?

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