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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V: The Flag of the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?
(a) By consciously working out a moral code.
(b) By teaching tradition to their children.
(c) By safe-guarding their religion.
(d) By safe-guarding their culture.

2. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) A mountain.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The ocean.

3. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?
(a) Because fairy tales explain it.
(b) Because man can fully understand it.
(c) Because God made it.
(d) Because there is nothing to compare it to.

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He begins to distrust everything.
(b) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(c) He loses his right to speak out against anything.
(d) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.

5. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.
(b) Only a man can rule himself.
(c) The most important things must be done by individuals.
(d) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

2. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?

3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

4. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?

5. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?

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