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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 call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(b) God is all-powerful and created the world.
(c) God is loving and created the world in his image.
(d) God can be found in the nature that he made.

2. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?
(a) In a man's sense of conviction.
(b) In a man's sense of ambition and effort.
(c) In a man's view of himself.
(d) In a man's perception of others.

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Sin.
(d) Forgiveness.

4. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) God.
(b) The heavens.
(c) Imagination.
(d) The earth.

5. 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) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.
(d) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.

Short Answer Questions

1. What definition does Chesterton find BEST for optimist and pessimist?

2. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?

3. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?

4. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?

5. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)

(see the answer key)

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