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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 that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?
(a) Materialism cannot allow even a hint of the supernatural or strange.
(b) Materialism has no belief in an afterlife.
(c) Christianity encompasses all of Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Materialism has a smaller view of man.

2. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?
(a) He finds great, unsearchable truths.
(b) He searches for extraordinary truths.
(c) He loses hope that truth exists.
(d) He loses hope that he, a mortal, can ever find the truth.

3. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)
(a) Fairyland was no longer important to his thinking.
(b) The dragon had been conquered.
(c) The land was lit up even back to his childhood.
(d) The army had fled before the light of his revelation.

4. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are not truly Christian.
(b) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(c) They are separate from the Bible.
(d) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.

5. 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 has little conception of vice.
(c) It deals well with evil.
(d) It is full of wasted virtues.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

2. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

3. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?

4. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

5. What words does Chesterton prefer when referring to nature?

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