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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. Why does Chesterton think glass is so often used in fairy tales?
(a) Glass, like happiness, is easily broken.
(b) Glass is unusual for shoes and houses, and fitting to fairy tales.
(c) Glass easily portrays vivid emotions like anger.
(d) Glass is cheap and common.

2. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?
(a) To hear he was in the right place.
(b) To pray to God for the first time.
(c) To find fulfillment of his optimism.
(d) To hear he was not in the right place.

3. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Not thinking.
(b) Shock therapy.
(c) Being isolated.
(d) Not feeling.

4. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) Imagination.
(b) The heavens.
(c) The earth.
(d) God.

5. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?
(a) He is too stupid to understand fairy tales.
(b) He understands fairy tales better than any other poet.
(c) His Irish heritage opens his eyes to the wonders of fairyland.
(d) He is close to understanding fairy tales but cannot write them well.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

2. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?

3. What does Chesterton explain as his method for proving his argument?

4. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?

5. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

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