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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. How many sources contributed to the model?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

2. Who cited Lucan for scientific purposes?
(a) Plato.
(b) Dante.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Sophocles.

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

4. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?
(a) It was left unfinished.
(b) It was not recorded chronologically.
(c) The reader is left not knowing the interpretation.
(d) The translator added his own opinion in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis say separates the medieval man from savages?

2. What is the model a reflection of?

3. Who do Christians say created nature?

4. What does Lewis say the model should NOT be?

5. What was historically important for the Middle Ages?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. How did Macrobius clean up Somnium Scipius?

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

9. Who was Boethius?

10. What were some of the most important debates in medieval times?

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