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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 choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?
(a) Accept a personal God or an impersonal force.
(b) Deny God or accept God.
(c) Deny or accept man's ability to raise himself to the heavens.
(d) Deny God or deny God's connection with man.

2. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?
(a) He wants to write a sequel.
(b) He is very proud of it.
(c) It is not perfect but he's happy.
(d) He would never read it.

3. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?
(a) In a man's perception of others.
(b) In a man's sense of ambition and effort.
(c) In a man's sense of conviction.
(d) In a man's view of himself.

4. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?
(a) Altruistic.
(b) Egotistical.
(c) Paltry.
(d) Self-sufficient.

5. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He says categories do not exist.
(b) He notes five categories.
(c) He perceives twelve categories.
(d) He subdivides things into tiny categories.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?

2. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)

3. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?

4. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?

5. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?

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