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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: On the Man Called Christ, Chapter III: The Strangest Story in the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Helen.
(c) Hector.
(d) Agamemnon.

2. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?
(a) Their leaders were mystics.
(b) We know nothing regarding their government.
(c) They had no widely spread form of government.
(d) Their government was not headed by a leader like the "Old Man."

3. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?
(a) Egypt and Rome.
(b) Egypt and Mazatlan.
(c) Egypt and Babylon.
(d) Rome and Greece.

4. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?
(a) Great civilizations arose throughout history.
(b) Evidence that the most powerful leaders are revered as gods.
(c) Evidence that the state grew more despotic as it grew more civilized.
(d) Barbarism can exist in complicated civilizations.

5. What does Chesterton call the death of Socrates?
(a) Symbolic of the time.
(b) Inconsequential.
(c) An interruption in his teaching.
(d) Unavoidable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?

2. What does Chesterton say about the story of Good Friday?

3. Where does Chesterton say the history of Rome is best understood?

4. How does Chesterton characterize the wanderings of Jesus?

5. What place does Chesterton say was the center of antiquity?

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