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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Five.

2. What taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?
(a) His breath turns the world gray.
(b) His gaze makes men's hearts quiver in fear.
(c) His heart cannot soften the world.
(d) His salvation is not sufficient for all of humanity.

3. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God is all-powerful and created the world.
(b) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(c) God can be found in the nature that he made.
(d) God is loving and created the world in his image.

4. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?
(a) Nature becomes pure as it offers salvation.
(b) Man can only then begin to search for God.
(c) Nature becomes twisted.
(d) Man is lifted up to God.

5. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?
(a) They are opposed to optimists.
(b) They impede progress.
(c) They are opposed to religious beliefs in any form.
(d) They are cosmic anti-patriots.

6. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because man can never prove the principle.
(b) Because it relates to God.
(c) Because man cannot truly understand creation.
(d) Because it is necessarily verbal.

7. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?
(a) Man must look inward for salvation.
(b) Man must look to the Old Testament for salvation.
(c) Man must look outward for salvation.
(d) Man's salvation will come only when Christ returns.

8. Chesterton chooses miracles as his first example regarding liberal thinking. What does he call this example?
(a) The most obvious choice.
(b) The easiest place to start.
(c) The easiest point to prove.
(d) The worst problem facing liberals.

9. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?
(a) They are difficult to read and pronounce.
(b) Few people know what they mean.
(c) They do not require thinking.
(d) They hinder understanding.

10. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(b) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.
(c) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.
(d) Those who take women for granted.

11. What is Chesterton's stated purpose in Chapter VI, the Paradoxes of Christianity
(a) To show that Christianity's irregularities are matched in its truths.
(b) To show that Christianity has an answer for every problem.
(c) To show that Christianity cannot account for irregularities.
(d) To show that Christianity is fully logical.

12. What oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?
(a) Men have physical luxury but artistic poorness.
(b) Men ignore the physical life in pursuit of the spiritual.
(c) Men ignore the spiritual life in pursuit of the physical.
(d) Men have artistic luxury but physical poorness.

13. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?
(a) Western religion says that social organisms are harmful to faith.
(b) Western religion says that the church provides the only stable society.
(c) Western religion says that the family unit is the only important social organism.
(d) Western religion says that no person should be alone.

14. How does Chesterton contrast pantheism and action?
(a) Pantheism entails all possibilities; action is exclusive in its choice.
(b) Pantheism is completely inactive and therefore opposes action.
(c) Pantheism says one thing is as good as another; action chooses one thing as best.
(d) Pantheism looks only at the world; action looks also at the supernatural.

15. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
(a) That "he chastises gods and men."
(b) That "he will defend the indefensible."
(c) That "he honestly angers honest men."
(d) That "he does not love what he chastises."

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?

2. What does Chesterton see as the purpose of the boundaries established by Christianity?

3. According to Chesterton, what mindset, paralleling patriotism, leads to reform?

4. In Chesterton's example, why is it important for Gradgrind to give his employees skeptical literature?

5. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?

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