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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. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?
(a) A blatant lie.
(b) The creativity of desperation.
(c) Pure sophistry.
(d) An illogical argument.

2. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) Only a man can rule himself.
(b) The most important things must be done by individuals.
(c) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.
(d) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.

3. 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 has little conception of vice.
(c) It deals well with evil.
(d) Its ethics are better than they used to be.

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

5. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As an infinite line.
(c) As a small, perfect circle.
(d) As a tangle of threads.

Short Answer Questions

1. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?

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

3. What is the title of Chapter I?

4. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)

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

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