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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: Selected Materials: The Classical Period.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Lewis say separates the medieval man from savages?
(a) Their strict traditions.
(b) Their thirst for knowledge.
(c) Their ideals.
(d) Their religion.

3. What would guarantee the truth of something to a medieval man?
(a) Having it written in a book.
(b) Divining it from nature.
(c) Seeing signs in the sky.
(d) Hearing it from a priest.

4. Educated men in what age were most impacted by the model?
(a) Industrial Age.
(b) Classical antiquity.
(c) Middle Ages.
(d) Modern times.

5. Which of these was the model also centered around?
(a) People.
(b) Values.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What separated nature from the sky?

2. Why was it ironic for Lucan to be cited for scientific purposes?

3. How did nature differ from the sky?

4. Where is Scipio Minor taken in Somnious Scipionis?

5. As defined by pagans, what did nature include?

(see the answer key)

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