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

2. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.
(b) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(c) They are separate from the Bible.
(d) They are not truly Christian.

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

4. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Returning home to the old land.
(b) Settling the new land and making it familiar.
(c) Claiming the new land for your own.
(d) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.

5. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) A crushed moth and a live one.
(b) A lonely woman and her lonely child.
(c) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(d) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?

2. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?

3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

4. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

5. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?

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