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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 say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He loses his right to speak out against anything.
(b) He begins to distrust everything.
(c) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(d) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.

2. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?
(a) The idealists and pantheists.
(b) The last Stoics and the Quakers.
(c) The early Christians.
(d) The people who hated Marcus Aurelius.

3. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it is unjust.
(b) He thinks it is just.
(c) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(d) He thinks it is immaterial.

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

5. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?
(a) He is not humorous enough.
(b) He can only tell lies that he believes.
(c) He tells too many lies.
(d) He is too logical in his arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?

2. What is Pimlico?

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

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

5. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?

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