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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it hard to determine what Chalcidius's religion was?
(a) He moved from place to place.
(b) He never wrote about his beliefs.
(c) He writes both pagan and Christian literature.
(d) He was loved by both sides.

2. What was philosophy supposed to be free of in order to be pure?
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Bias.
(c) Theology.
(d) Paganism.

3. According to Lewis, which is NOT used by most people when thinking about medieval man?
(a) Rigorous thought.
(b) Belief.
(c) Research.
(d) Understanding.

4. What did Scipio Minor say is insignificant while he is in the sky?
(a) World ambitions.
(b) Choice and accountability.
(c) Change.
(d) Creativity.

5. What is the model a reflection of?
(a) Philosophy of the time.
(b) Education of the time.
(c) Traditions of the time.
(d) History of the world.

6. Where did the souls of the just go according to medieval beliefs?
(a) The stars.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The sky.
(d) Nature.

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

8. Why were those unaware of the model still affected by it?
(a) The economic implications reached them.
(b) The writers wrote from it.
(c) The priests taught by it.
(d) Their families were raised with it.

9. Who worked the hardest at reconciling things in medieval times?
(a) Kings.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Civilians.
(d) Writers.

10. What influence brought about the Seminal Period?
(a) Pagan.
(b) Roman.
(c) Christian.
(d) Medieval.

11. What else is the model a reflection of?
(a) Authority figures.
(b) Strange beliefs.
(c) Religious currents.
(d) Duty and obligation.

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

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

14. According to Lewis, how did medieval man come to start those things he calls obsolete?
(a) Scientifically.
(b) Imaginatively.
(c) Randomly.
(d) Naturally.

15. Where did Somnious Scipionis appear?
(a) Cicero's Republic.
(b) Scipio's History.
(c) Aristotle's writings.
(d) Plato's Philosophies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did medieval men like to make systems out of?

2. What in the sky changed regularly?

3. What did the medieval men have to reconcile in their culture?

4. Which of the following was NOT a contributor to the model?

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

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