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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. What is Pimlico?
(a) A dreary American town.
(b) An English newspaper.
(c) Chesterton's favorite dog.
(d) A dreary English town.

2. What is Chesterton's first criterion for progress?
(a) It must mesh with tradition.
(b) It must be attainable.
(c) It must be accessible to everyone.
(d) It must be unchanging.

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

4. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?
(a) Skepticism from a Philosophical Viewpoint.
(b) Understanding the Skeptical Mind.
(c) The Creeds and Hierarchies.
(d) Doubts of the Instrument.

5. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
(a) That "he will defend the indefensible."
(b) That "he honestly angers honest men."
(c) That "he does not love what he chastises."
(d) That "he chastises gods and men."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?

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

3. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?

4. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?

5. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?

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