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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Macrobius think was the center of the universe?
(a) The heavens.
(b) The moon.
(c) The earth.
(d) The sun.

2. How does Lewis feel about the popular beliefs about medieval man?
(a) He finds it rediculous.
(b) He disagrees.
(c) He agrees.
(d) He partly agrees.

3. What word does Lewis use to describe how most thoughts about medieval man arise?
(a) Spontaneously.
(b) Sporadically.
(c) Naturally.
(d) Randomly.

4. How did the medieval mind differ from the modern mind?
(a) They never made snap judgements.
(b) They had no pre-concevied notions.
(c) They were very scientific.
(d) They were very faithful.

5. What about medieval men does Lewis call strange?
(a) All of these.
(b) Their beliefs.
(c) Their authority.
(d) Their traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis say all men have an immediate response to?

2. What does Lewis say the model was NOT?

3. What was the model a backdrop for?

4. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

5. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

(see the answer key)

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