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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 did the serious changes in our political outlook occur at the beginning of the nineteenth century rather than at the end?
(a) At the end, men were caught up in religious questions.
(b) At the beginning, intellectualism was more highly encouraged.
(c) At the end, men began to believe wholeheartedly in certain things.
(d) At the beginning, men still believed fixedly in certain things.

2. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?
(a) That it is particular.
(b) That it has knowable consequences.
(c) That it is an action of freedom.
(d) That it is individual.

3. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He perceives twelve categories.
(b) He notes five categories.
(c) He says categories do not exist.
(d) He subdivides things into tiny categories.

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(b) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.
(c) He loses his right to speak out against anything.
(d) He begins to distrust everything.

5. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?
(a) The idealists and pantheists.
(b) The people who hated Marcus Aurelius.
(c) The last Stoics and the Quakers.
(d) The early Christians.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?

2. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?

3. What two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?

4. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?

5. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

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