Orthodoxy Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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Orthodoxy Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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

2. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) The ability to cross the infinite sea.
(b) A world to stretch out in.
(c) An understanding of the heavens.
(d) A raft to float on.

3. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?
(a) To illustrate his idea of wonder.
(b) He is that sailor.
(c) The sailor will appear throughout the book.
(d) To explain his picture of God.

4. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who take women for granted.
(b) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.
(c) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(d) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.

5. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Shock therapy.
(b) Not thinking.
(c) Being isolated.
(d) Not feeling.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

2. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?

3. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?

4. What is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?

5. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

(see the answer key)

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