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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. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?
(a) A test of happiness will always trump.
(b) They both lead to the same end.
(c) The first is a true test but the second is not.
(d) Happiness cannot truly be tested.

2. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Disciples' Creed.
(b) The Athanasian Creed.
(c) The Apostles' Creed.
(d) The Nicene Creed.

3. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?
(a) There are no answers to be found.
(b) No one else can think for him.
(c) He will never find the answers.
(d) He has no right to think for himself.

4. What does Chesterton name as the chief pleasure?
(a) Surprise.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Security.

5. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) Imagination.
(b) God.
(c) The earth.
(d) The heavens.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?

2. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?

3. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

5. According to Chesterton, what effect does the moralists' attitude have on the cosmos?

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