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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 medieval mind had a desire to do?
(a) Make new discoveries.
(b) Divine the future.
(c) See into the past.
(d) Organize ideas.

2. Which of these was the model centered on?
(a) The earth.
(b) Theology.
(c) The universe.
(d) Nature.

3. Which of the following did Lewis say medieval men worshiped?
(a) Moths.
(b) None of these.
(c) Books.
(d) Cats.

4. What does Lewis say causes men to think the way they do about medieval man?
(a) Their education.
(b) Their environment.
(c) Their upbringing.
(d) Their misinformation.

5. What did medieval man give a great amount of authority to?
(a) Nature.
(b) The stars.
(c) Preachers.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was nominalism opposed to?

2. What about medieval man does Lewis call obsolete?

3. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

4. What does Lewis say some people view the medieval man as?

5. What does Somnious Scipionus mean?

(see the answer key)

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