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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII: The Romance of Orthodoxy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Sin.

2. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?
(a) Man can begin with the desire for a blue world but should not end there.
(b) Man must not be sidetracked onto changing every aspect of his world.
(c) If a man always works toward a blue world, he will eventually succeed.
(d) Man's desire for a blue world is only illusory.

3. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(b) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."
(c) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."
(d) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."

4. How does the Christian idea of a transcendent God manifest itself in a frightening way?
(a) God sometimes disappears and cannot be found again.
(b) God is so far above man that he can never be reached.
(c) God is so different from man that the two cannot relate.
(d) God sometimes disappears and must be sought.

5. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Religion.
(b) Science.
(c) Reason.
(d) Modern intelligence.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?

2. What does Chesterton see as the purpose of the boundaries established by Christianity?

3. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?

4. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?

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

(see the answer key)

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