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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII: The Eternal Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?
(a) They connect a man directly to God, who is greater.
(b) They remind man how far he still must go.
(c) A man must be small to appreciate their size.
(d) They speak to man's sense of accomplishment.

2. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?
(a) She provides courage to the French.
(b) She turned her fright into courage, when faced with battle.
(c) She is everything that he admired.
(d) She is an icon of Christianity and courage.

4. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God can be found in the nature that he made.
(b) God is all-powerful and created the world.
(c) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(d) God is loving and created the world in his image.

5. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?
(a) God-given authority.
(b) The passage of time.
(c) Persuasive thinking, similar to Nietzsche's.
(d) The progression of creatures through evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pimlico?

2. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?

3. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?

4. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?

5. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?

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