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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. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)
(a) The land was lit up even back to his childhood.
(b) The army had fled before the light of his revelation.
(c) The dragon had been conquered.
(d) Fairyland was no longer important to his thinking.

2. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?
(a) Scientific absolutes.
(b) Argumentation.
(c) First principles.
(d) Religion.

3. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(b) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.
(c) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.
(d) Those who take women for granted.

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

5. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?
(a) As a mother.
(b) As a step-mother.
(c) As a laughing little sister.
(d) As a goddess.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?

2. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?

3. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is his opinion of the fourth standard?

4. What is the enormous mistake of the modern age, according to Chesterton?

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

(see the answer key)

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