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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II: The Maniac.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Casting out a demon.
(b) Shifting the foundations of the sea.
(c) Tilting the earth on its axis.
(d) Arguing with a learned philosopher.

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

3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?
(a) Proving the Christianity is true.
(b) Proving from every angle that any one faith is true.
(c) Explaining the intricacies of Christianity.
(d) Proving that materialism is an insufficient worldview.

4. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?
(a) He does not take enough fresh water.
(b) He thinks England is a new island in the South Seas.
(c) He navigates by the sun rather than by the stars.
(d) From the harbor, he sets out in the wrong direction.

5. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?
(a) Readers from Eastern culture.
(b) People who have read a large amount of Christian apologetics.
(c) Readers from Western culture.
(d) Well-educated readers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

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

3. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?

4. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

5. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?

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