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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. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) It has little conception of vice.
(b) It deals well with evil.
(c) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(d) It is full of wasted virtues.

2. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Modern intelligence.
(d) Science.

3. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?
(a) Fairytales.
(b) Theatrics.
(c) Infancy.
(d) Repetition.

4. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?
(a) Because he had to work through his religious beliefs.
(b) As a personal challenge to himself.
(c) Because he had a well-crafted argument for Christianity.
(d) In response to a challenge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

2. What does Chesterton name as the second principle of democracy?

3. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?

4. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?

5. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?

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