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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) Overpopulation or extermination of humanity.
(b) Living a fairytale or living in hell.
(c) Sitting absolutely still or smashing the world for fun.
(d) Christianity or atheism.

2. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) It is full of wasted virtues.
(b) It deals well with evil.
(c) It has little conception of vice.
(d) Its ethics are better than they used to be.

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

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

5. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?
(a) The will frees a man.
(b) The will has boundaries only if it is not a free action.
(c) The will is limiting to the man.
(d) The will defines a man's actions fully.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?

3. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?

4. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?

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

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