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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: The Suicide of Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?
(a) Fanciful thinking.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Brashness.
(d) Helplessness.

4. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As a small, perfect circle.
(c) As a tangle of threads.
(d) As an infinite line.

5. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(b) A crushed moth and a live one.
(c) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.
(d) A lonely woman and her lonely child.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

2. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

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

4. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?

5. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?

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