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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. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As a small, perfect circle.
(c) As a tangle of threads.
(d) As an infinite line.

2. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.
(b) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(c) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.
(d) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.

3. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A prestigious church.
(c) An insane asylum.
(d) The author's neighborhood.

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He begins to distrust everything.
(b) He loses his right to speak out against anything.
(c) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(d) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.

5. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?
(a) Atheists.
(b) Believers.
(c) Lunatics.
(d) Priests.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

3. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

4. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

5. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?

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