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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: The Suicide of Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Poe.
(c) Cowper.
(d) Dryden.

3. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) It is full of wasted virtues.
(b) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(c) It deals well with evil.
(d) It has little conception of vice.

4. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(b) He does not take its content seriously.
(c) He went looking for something that is already known.
(d) He wrote it so he could win a bet.

5. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?
(a) First principles.
(b) Scientific absolutes.
(c) Argumentation.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

2. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?

3. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

4. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?

5. What does Chesterton name as the chief pleasure?

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