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

2. What was the great project of most medieval writers?
(a) To explore the ideas and thought processes of man.
(b) To bring a vast level of education to all men.
(c) To make connections among differing beliefs in books.
(d) To record as much history as possible.

3. Which of these was the model also centered around?
(a) Values.
(b) People.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Religion.

4. What kind of conflicts did Christians and pagans have?
(a) Real and imagined.
(b) Literary and historic.
(c) Intellectual and violent.
(d) Religious and political.

5. Who wrote about Amyclas?
(a) Milton.
(b) Lucan.
(c) Aquian.
(d) Dante.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many sources contributed to the model?

2. What did Macrobius usually write about?

3. What did Macrobius think was the center of the universe?

4. How did Scipio Minor plan to meet the gods?

5. When did the model appear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was Boethius?

2. How did Macrobius clean up Somnium Scipius?

3. What does the story of Cato and Marcia provide in literature?

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

5. What did the model serve as a backdrop for?

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

7. What is the doctrine of plentitude?

8. What does Lewis say the process is for most people when they make their opinion of medieval men and practices?

9. How did medieval writers feel about Dionysius's work, and why is this so ironic?

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

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