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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?
2. What does Chesterton see as the purpose of the boundaries established by Christianity?
3. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
4. What is the thesis of Mrs. Besant's book?
5. Why did the serious changes in our political outlook occur at the beginning of the nineteenth century rather than at the end?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton name the most common type of trouble in the world? How does Christianity answer this trouble?
2. How does Chesterton explain pantheism's relation to wonder? What is the primary difference between pantheism and action?
3. Why are liberals not free thinkers? What argument is made in Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy, about confusion within language?
4. As Chesterton argues, why does love seek individuality and personality? Is this true only in relation to man or also in relation to God?
5. At the end of Chapter V, The Flag of the World, what transformation does Chesterton describe? How did the transformation address his question of optimism and pessimism?
6. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
7. What does Chesterton say is the most sensible ideal for nature? Is this a valid ideal? Why or why not?
8. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?
9. Why, according to Chesterton, do modern thinkers find it advantageous to modernity to change the vision of heaven constantly? What effect does this have on man's mind?
10. What is the common view of Christianity and Buddhism, according to Chesterton? How are they similar and dissimilar? What is Chesterton's opinion of their differences?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chesterton wants only a Utopia that allows him to restrict himself, to bind his own liberties. What does he mean by this? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What is your idea of Utopia, and does it coincide at any point with Chesterton's idea?
Essay Topic 2
Compile the examples Chesterton gives from Bernard Shaw's writings and speeches. What kind of thinker is Shaw? How does he differ from Chesterton? How is he similar?
Essay Topic 3
In Chesterton's estimation, men gained their sense of morality by protecting their religion. How is this true? How has it been played out in history?
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