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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 two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?
(a) Christianity or atheism.
(b) Overpopulation or extermination of humanity.
(c) Living a fairytale or living in hell.
(d) Sitting absolutely still or smashing the world for fun.

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

3. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?
(a) In opposition, never coming close.
(b) In opposition, sharpening each other into greater fierceness.
(c) Coming together to soften each other.
(d) Coming close enough to affect each other.

4. According to Chesterton, what mindset, paralleling patriotism, leads to reform?
(a) Rational pessimism.
(b) Rational optimism.
(c) Irrational pessimism.
(d) Irrational optimism.

5. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?
(a) The religion of the Christian God.
(b) The religion that worships the god inside.
(c) The religion that worships multiple gods.
(d) The religion that debases a man.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

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

3. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?

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

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

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