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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 it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?
(a) They were unable to see the truth of matters.
(b) They were ahead of their times.
(c) They believed in fanciful creatures.
(d) They had such easily disproved ideas.

2. What is considered a perfect shape by medieval man?
(a) Circle.
(b) Pentagon.
(c) Triangle.
(d) Square.

3. What did the term "the end of the earth" mean to medieval people?
(a) The edge of known geography.
(b) The edge of the flat earth.
(c) The separation between the realm of gods and the realm of men.
(d) The separating space between earth and sky.

4. Who did medieval man think led the rebellion of fallen angels?
(a) Satan.
(b) The first man.
(c) The prime mover.
(d) Hades.

5. What shape did medieval man believe the earth was?
(a) A sphere.
(b) A hemisphere.
(c) A flat disc.
(d) A rhombus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis say the medieval world imposed on objects?

2. What does Lewis say the modern world imposes on objects?

3. What did some people say the longaevi inhabited?

4. Who used the prime mover for his own purposes according to medieval beliefs?

5. What did medieval men use to predict things?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the things that planets caused men to do according to astrology?

2. What led to Longaevi not being widely spoken about?

3. How did Lewis say modern and medieval writers differ in terms of humility?

4. How was common sense defined in medieval times?

5. What did Lewis say medieval man was enamored with, and how did this change their literature?

6. How did the prime mover move, and why?

7. What is the first thought some writers had about the nature of Longaevi?

8. How did medieval man explain insanity?

9. How did medieval literature say the sensitive soul divided?

10. Which did the medieval scholars decide were created first, the soul or the body?

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