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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV: The Ethics of Elfland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter I?
(a) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(b) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.
(c) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(d) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.

2. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?
(a) There is nothing to be fierce about.
(b) Satire is too violent for the modern mind.
(c) Writers are not taught to appreciate satire.
(d) Modern satire takes different forms than literature.

3. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.
(b) Only a man can rule himself.
(c) The most important things must be done by individuals.
(d) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.

4. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) A mountain.
(b) The moon.
(c) The sun.
(d) The ocean.

5. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)
(a) Defining man's progress in terms of religion.
(b) Confusing people with too much data.
(c) Changing the standards rather than becoming better.
(d) Tracking man's progress poorly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?

2. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?

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

4. Who is Mr. Blatchford?

5. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

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