Orthodoxy Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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Orthodoxy Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter V: The Flag of the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.
(b) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.
(c) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.
(d) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.

2. What definition does Chesterton find BEST for optimist and pessimist?
(a) An optimist thinks everything right but the pessimist, while the pessimist thinks everything wrong but himself.
(b) An optimist looks after your eyes, while a pessimist looks after your feet.
(c) An optimist has nothing but hope, while the pessimist has everything but hope.
(d) An optimist sees the world as the best it can be, while the pessimist sees the world as the worst it can be.

3. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?
(a) Because fairy tales explain it.
(b) Because there is nothing to compare it to.
(c) Because man can fully understand it.
(d) Because God made it.

4. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."
(b) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(c) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."
(d) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."

5. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Sin.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Righteous wrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?

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

3. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?

4. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?

5. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)

(see the answer key)

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