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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. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Arguing with a learned philosopher.
(b) Casting out a demon.
(c) Shifting the foundations of the sea.
(d) Tilting the earth on its axis.

2. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
(a) They contradicted each other.
(b) They were not fully truth.
(c) They could not be lived out.
(d) They were not his.

3. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?
(a) He can only tell lies that he believes.
(b) He tells too many lies.
(c) He is too logical in his arguments.
(d) He is not humorous enough.

4. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?
(a) Man is lifted up to God.
(b) Nature becomes twisted.
(c) Man can only then begin to search for God.
(d) Nature becomes pure as it offers salvation.

5. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in objective truth.
(b) Belief in the power of progress.
(c) Some type of religious grounding.
(d) Belief in the Christian God.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?

2. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?

3. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?

4. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

5. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?

(see the answer key)

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