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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter II: Professors and Prehistoric Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?
(a) The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it.
(b) The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.
(c) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
(d) All of these.

2. Which one of the following is NOT, according to Chesterton, one of the great mysteries?
(a) The origin of God.
(b) The origin of the universe.
(c) The origin of mankind.
(d) The origin of life.

3. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?
(a) All of these.
(b) Cave men were closer to the beasts around them.
(c) Art is the signature of man.
(d) Cave men were child-like.

4. What does Chesterton think seeing mankind correctly will accomplish?
(a) Restore faith in Christianity.
(b) Lead back to understanding God as creator.
(c) Throw doubt on evolution.
(d) Disprove common anthropological theories.

5. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?
(a) Language.
(b) The huge difference between cave men and apes.
(c) The emergence of religion.
(d) The artistry of cave drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Chesterton give that the experiences of the three initial elements of religion cannot be responsible for the rise of mysticism?

2. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?

3. In Part I, Chapter 1, which of the following does Chesterton recommend doing?

4. What does Chesterton claim the evidence proves about cave men?

5. Who does Chesterton claim to be the best judge of Christianity?

(see the answer key)

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