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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lewis say the modern world imposes on objects?
(a) Properties.
(b) Restrictions.
(c) Obedience.
(d) Desires.

2. What did medieval scholars have a crude knowledge of?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Geography.
(c) Tidal pulls.
(d) Gravity.

3. What does Lewis say the medieval world imposed on objects?
(a) Properties.
(b) Obedience.
(c) Desires.
(d) Restrictions.

4. What does Lewis say it is hard for some people to grasp about medieval beliefs?
(a) They believed in fanciful creatures.
(b) They were ahead of their times.
(c) They had such easily disproved ideas.
(d) They were unable to see the truth of matters.

5. What does "longaevi" mean?
(a) Learned.
(b) Long width.
(c) Long lived.
(d) Larger than life.

6. What did medieval man say were neither good nor bad?
(a) Wizards.
(b) Fairies.
(c) Gods.
(d) Queens.

7. What did medieval men think only a wise man could do?
(a) Ignore astrology.
(b) See into the future.
(c) Resist the influence of the planets.
(d) Divine the future by studying the past.

8. What led to the belief of unicorns?
(a) Fairy tales.
(b) False tales.
(c) Strange images.
(d) Imitated pictures.

9. Where did medieval man think God dwelled?
(a) The sky.
(b) The equator.
(c) Heaven.
(d) The moon.

10. Why did some medieval writers not feel the need to use skillful writing?
(a) They wanted to appeal to the masses.
(b) They didn't want to offend readers.
(c) They assumed the reader knew about it.
(d) They had faith in their subject.

11. Which kind of soul gave the power to see and move?
(a) Vegetative.
(b) Sensitive.
(c) Conscious.
(d) Rational.

12. Who did those who called the longaevi a fallen class think they were?
(a) Rebellious dead.
(b) All of these.
(c) Fallen angels.
(d) Servants of the devil.

13. What did Lewis say was most notable about renaissance literature?
(a) Their knowledge.
(b) Their theories.
(c) Their confidence.
(d) Their experience.

14. Why did some longaevi not want to be seen by people?
(a) They were shy.
(b) They were weak.
(c) They were evil.
(d) They were prejudiced.

15. What is the tone of most medieval books?
(a) Imaginative.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Informative.
(d) Angry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the term "the end of the earth" mean to medieval people?

2. What did Mars cause men to do?

3. Why was zoology such a studied science?

4. Which philosopher believed souls to be eternal?

5. What does Lewis say can help people better understand the renaissance style of writing?

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