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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was a medieval writer?

2. What religion did Macrobious likely follow?

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

4. As defined by pagans, what did nature include?

5. How did the medieval mind differ from the modern mind?

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. What was Boethius's most important work, and what was it about?

4. What did medieval men give a lot of authority and credence to?

5. What does Lewis say it is important not to see the model as?

6. What two philosophies did Apulieus bring to light?

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

8. What did medieval men like to organize and systematize?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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