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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 does Lewis say some people view the medieval man as?
(a) Simple.
(b) Less civilized.
(c) All of these.
(d) Barbaric.

2. What was realism opposed to?
(a) Religiousism.
(b) Nominalism.
(c) Cathechism.
(d) Plebianism.

3. How does Lewis label the model?
(a) A standard.
(b) A reservation.
(c) An ideal.
(d) A tradition.

4. What does Lewis say the model should NOT be?
(a) A direct image of the time.
(b) An exaggeration.
(c) A central authority.
(d) A concrete idea.

5. What about medieval men does Lewis call strange?
(a) Their traditions.
(b) All of these.
(c) Their beliefs.
(d) Their authority.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Scipio Minor taken in Somnious Scipionis?

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

3. How did Chalcidius feel about Apulieius's doctrines?

4. What is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who was Boethius?

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

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

6. What is the doctrine of the triad?

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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