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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. Where did the prime mover live?
(a) The equator.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The moon.
(d) The largest sphere.

2. Which soul was created by God?
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Rational.
(c) Vegetative.
(d) Conscious.

3. What does Lewis say medieval literature has a fixation on?
(a) Details.
(b) Lists.
(c) Letters.
(d) Description.

4. What did medieval men like reading about the most?
(a) The history of their people.
(b) Religion.
(c) The world around them.
(d) The heavens.

5. Who did medieval man think caused men to rebel against God?
(a) Satan.
(b) Their inner beings.
(c) longaevi.
(d) Fallen angels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the tone of most medieval books?

2. What is considered a perfect shape by medieval man?

3. What was a flawed art in the Middle Ages?

4. Why was zoology such a studied science?

5. What was most important to Dickens in his writing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did medieval scholars say the different kinds of souls said to be created?

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

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

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

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

6. How did the lower spheres move according to medieval scholars, and why?

7. What does Lewis say the modern reader can do to better understand the medieval style of literature?

8. How did the church feel about astrology?

9. What was the fifth element, and where did it exist?

10. What did medieval scholars think were the two parts of the rational soul, and how do they work?

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