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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion: The Summary of This Book and Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?
(a) Look at the church from the inside.
(b) Look at Christianity as if it were a foreign religion.
(c) Analyze the origins of each religion.
(d) Reclassify the major religions of the world by different standards.

2. What does Chesterton say about the idea of reincarnation?
(a) All of these.
(b) It is not transcendental therefore not religious.
(c) It takes away the need or desire for religion.
(d) It is a worldly way of trying to explain the unworldly.

3. Who or what does Chesterton credit with the preservation of the true religion of mankind?
(a) Natural law.
(b) Human nature.
(c) The Jews.
(d) God.

4. What additional paradox does Chesterton see in the Christmas story?
(a) The light of God arriving in the dark.
(b) The importance and insignificance of the gathering.
(c) The human birth with the celestial marker.
(d) None of these.

5. What connection does Chesterton make between the boy and the cave-man?
(a) They both draw animals for the same reasons.
(b) They share the same innocent interpretation of life.
(c) They transcend their heritage.
(d) They have the same primal urges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement does Chesterton make about Wells's outline of the world?

2. From what does Chesterton's friend say the spire of a village church is originated?

3. When morality and faith in the gods was crumbling in Rome, what else does Chesterton say was crumbling?

4. What does Chesterton take as evidence that evolution is flawed as a way to define the origins of man?

5. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?

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