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

2. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?
(a) In opposition, sharpening each other into greater fierceness.
(b) In opposition, never coming close.
(c) Coming together to soften each other.
(d) Coming close enough to affect each other.

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

4. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) A world to stretch out in.
(b) A raft to float on.
(c) An understanding of the heavens.
(d) The ability to cross the infinite sea.

5. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Claiming the new land for your own.
(b) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(c) Returning home to the old land.
(d) Settling the new land and making it familiar.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

2. According to Chesterton, what mindset, paralleling patriotism, leads to reform?

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

4. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?

5. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

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