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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. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He says categories do not exist.
(b) He notes five categories.
(c) He perceives twelve categories.
(d) He subdivides things into tiny categories.

2. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(b) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.
(c) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(d) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.

3. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."
(b) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(c) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(d) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.

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

5. Who is Mr. Blatchford?
(a) An early Christian.
(b) A pagan.
(c) A humanitarian.
(d) A martyr.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?

2. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?

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

4. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?

5. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?

(see the answer key)

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