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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 choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?
(a) Deny God or accept God.
(b) Deny or accept man's ability to raise himself to the heavens.
(c) Accept a personal God or an impersonal force.
(d) Deny God or deny God's connection with man.

2. In looking at Christianity and materialism, what coincidence stopped Chesterton in his tracks?
(a) That Christianity was accused of being both too holy and too inane.
(b) That the materialists could not agree on a definition of their worldview.
(c) That Christianity was accused of being both too optimistic and too pessimistic.
(d) That the scientists directly contradicted their theories of evolution.

3. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(b) It deals well with evil.
(c) It is full of wasted virtues.
(d) It has little conception of vice.

4. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?
(a) They impede progress.
(b) They are opposed to religious beliefs in any form.
(c) They are opposed to optimists.
(d) They are cosmic anti-patriots.

5. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?
(a) Change cannot progress.
(b) The notion itself must be able to change, in order to suit the age.
(c) Change, in itself, is narrow and tedious.
(d) A man prefers monotony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?

2. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

3. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

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

(see the answer key)

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