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

2. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?
(a) Scientific absolutes.
(b) First principles.
(c) Argumentation.
(d) Religion.

3. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Unanswered questions.
(c) Religion.
(d) Reason.

4. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) He wrote it so he could win a bet.
(b) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(c) He does not take its content seriously.
(d) He went looking for something that is already known.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Mr. Street?

3. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

4. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

5. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?

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