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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 does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?
(a) They impede progress.
(b) They are opposed to optimists.
(c) They are cosmic anti-patriots.
(d) They are opposed to religious beliefs in any form.

2. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
(a) It must be earthly.
(b) It must be heavenly.
(c) It must be like Eden.
(d) It must be a utopia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the serious changes in our political outlook occur at the beginning of the nineteenth century rather than at the end?

2. According to Chesterton, what mindset, paralleling patriotism, leads to reform?

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

4. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?

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

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