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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of person would not have heard of the model?
(a) Lower citizens.
(b) Priests.
(c) Medieval scholars.
(d) Educated people.

2. What did Macrobius think would be found at the equator?
(a) Heats too high for man to survive.
(b) The origin of all living things.
(c) The entrance to hell.
(d) A large divide in the land.

3. What is the story about Cato and Marcia an allegory for?
(a) Adultery.
(b) Lust.
(c) Marriage.
(d) Friendship.

4. What was inefficient about the translation of Plato's Timmaeus?
(a) The reader is left not knowing the interpretation.
(b) It was not recorded chronologically.
(c) The translator added his own opinion in.
(d) It was left unfinished.

5. What was Amyclas's occupation?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Preacher.
(c) Merchant.
(d) Farmer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Educated men in what age were most impacted by the model?

2. What kind of conflicts did Christians and pagans have?

3. Which of the following of the medieval man are studied in this book?

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

5. What was nominalism opposed to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lewis say the medieval culture differs from most uncivilized cultures?

2. How did Lewis say the pagans view nature in their writing?

3. Who would have been least likely to know about or understand the model?

4. According to Lewis, who were the two most noteworthy medieval writers?

5. What were some of the most important debates in medieval times?

6. How did Lewis say the Christians view nature in their writing?

7. What does Lewis say makes the model less valid than it could have been?

8. How were people unaware of the model affected by it still?

9. What is the doctrine of plentitude?

10. What did most medieval writers spend a great deal of their time doing?

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