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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."
(b) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(c) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."
(d) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."

2. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
(a) Romance.
(b) Incarnation.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Transubstantiation.

3. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?
(a) He would never read it.
(b) He is very proud of it.
(c) It is not perfect but he's happy.
(d) He wants to write a sequel.

4. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Poe.
(c) Dryden.
(d) Cowper.

5. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?
(a) Egotistical.
(b) Self-sufficient.
(c) Altruistic.
(d) Paltry.

6. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(b) He thinks it is immaterial.
(c) He thinks it is just.
(d) He thinks it is unjust.

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

8. 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 there is nothing to compare it to.
(c) Because fairy tales explain it.
(d) Because God made it.

9. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?
(a) She provides courage to the French.
(b) She is an icon of Christianity and courage.
(c) She is everything that he admired.
(d) She turned her fright into courage, when faced with battle.

10. What does Chesterton explain as his method for proving his argument?
(a) Laying out arguments as he had thought of them, and then discovering they were already proven in Christianity.
(b) Laying out each argument as he refuted the skeptics.
(c) Laying out arguments with an acronym he came up with for his faith.
(d) Presenting each tenet of a well-reasoned case for Christianity.

11. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in objective truth.
(b) Belief in the power of progress.
(c) Belief in the Christian God.
(d) Some type of religious grounding.

12. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?
(a) Brashness.
(b) Fanciful thinking.
(c) Confidence.
(d) Helplessness.

13. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?
(a) There is no original model for a hero.
(b) The hero has no precedent for resolution to the conflict.
(c) The hero is now abnormal and his adventures are not surprising.
(d) The hero is boring and not surprised by the adventures.

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

15. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?
(a) Readers from Eastern culture.
(b) Well-educated readers.
(c) Readers from Western culture.
(d) People who have read a large amount of Christian apologetics.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?

2. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

4. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

5. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?

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