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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 name as the chief pleasure?
(a) Surprise.
(b) Security.
(c) Love.
(d) Money.

2. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(b) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.
(c) They are separate from the Bible.
(d) They are not truly Christian.

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

4. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?
(a) Buddhism shed some light on his questions.
(b) Christianity could lead him to the answers.
(c) Christianity arrived there first.
(d) Christianity could not answer any of his questions.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?

2. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)

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

4. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?

5. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?

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