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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. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?
(a) He would never read it.
(b) He wants to write a sequel.
(c) He is very proud of it.
(d) It is not perfect but he's happy.

2. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?
(a) To explain his picture of God.
(b) The sailor will appear throughout the book.
(c) To illustrate his idea of wonder.
(d) He is that sailor.

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

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

5. What words does Chesterton prefer when referring to nature?
(a) Necessity, order, tendency.
(b) Law, theory, science.
(c) Charm, spell, enchantment.
(d) Law, necessity, order.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?

4. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

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

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