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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did medieval man give a great amount of authority to?

2. What does Lewis say causes men to think the way they do about medieval man?

3. How did the medieval mind differ from the modern mind?

4. Why was it harder for pagans to write about nature?

5. What did the medieval spirits become in Christian writing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Lewis say the pagans view nature in their writing?

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

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

6. How did Macrobius come to the aid of Cicero and Plato when the benefits of fiction were questioned?

7. Who would have been least likely to know about or understand the model?

8. What is the model?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the four elements that medieval scholars said affected a man's disposition, and how did these ideas fit in to their medical field?

Essay Topic 2

Medieval society was made up of two separate and important cultures, the pagans and the Christians. Please compare and contrast these two cultures using citations from the text.

Essay Topic 3

What is the medieval model, and how did this affect the medieval society?

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