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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 H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He notes five categories.
(b) He perceives twelve categories.
(c) He says categories do not exist.
(d) He subdivides things into tiny categories.

2. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(b) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(c) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.
(d) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."

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

4. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?
(a) Because man can fully understand it.
(b) Because God made it.
(c) Because there is nothing to compare it to.
(d) Because fairy tales explain it.

5. 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) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(c) It deals well with evil.
(d) It is full of wasted virtues.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the title of Chapter I?

4. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?

5. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?

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