Orthodoxy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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Orthodoxy Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII: The Romance of Orthodoxy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?
(a) The essential things are those they hold in common.
(b) Men act as individuals.
(c) The essential things are those they hold as individuals.
(d) Men act within the body of citizens.

2. According to Chesterton, most things are allied with oppression. What is the one area where he sees a line past which oppression has no effect?
(a) Love.
(b) Religion.
(c) Orthodoxy.
(d) Politics.

3. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?
(a) Today's skeptic cannot even define what he trusts.
(b) Today's skeptic is not nearly so violent.
(c) Today's skeptic is a true revolutionary.
(d) Today's skeptic is not a Jacobin.

4. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?
(a) He is too stupid to understand fairy tales.
(b) He is close to understanding fairy tales but cannot write them well.
(c) His Irish heritage opens his eyes to the wonders of fairyland.
(d) He understands fairy tales better than any other poet.

5. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are separate from the Bible.
(b) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.
(c) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(d) They are not truly Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton call "the most difficult and interesting part of the mental process" that he reached? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 247)

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

3. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?

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

5. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?

(see the answer key)

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