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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. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?
2. In looking at Christianity and materialism, what coincidence stopped Chesterton in his tracks?
3. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?
4. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?
5. Chesterton notes a startling difference between Christian and Buddhist art. What is this difference?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
2. Chapter V, The Flag of the World, begins with a young girl's idea that "An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet" (Chesterton 2000, pg 223). How does Chesterton explain this?
3. What nearly persuaded Chesterton to become a Christian? Why was this thought frightening?
4. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
5. Near the beginning of Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, Chesterton makes an argument concerning superiority. What is this argument? Does he satisfy the question fully?
6. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?
7. Christianity holds that any man who depends on a luxurious life is fallen and corrupt. What effect does this belief have on the believer, according to Chesterton?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chesterton says that people desire both the familiar and the unfamiliar. Is this true? How might they relate? Does one drive the other? Support your thesis with his arguments concerning this desire.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Why does Chesterton say that progress must have a fixed goal? What happens if the goal changes? How is this question related to the ideas of reform versus evolution?
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