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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. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He perceives twelve categories.
(b) He says categories do not exist.
(c) He subdivides things into tiny categories.
(d) He notes five categories.

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

3. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?
(a) A test of happiness will always trump.
(b) They both lead to the same end.
(c) Happiness cannot truly be tested.
(d) The first is a true test but the second is not.

4. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?
(a) He sees purpose in every act.
(b) He cannot differentiate between careless and important acts.
(c) His world is comprised of careless acts.
(d) He does not notice insignificant things.

5. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)
(a) Changing the standards rather than becoming better.
(b) Confusing people with too much data.
(c) Tracking man's progress poorly.
(d) Defining man's progress in terms of religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?

2. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?

3. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

4. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?

5. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

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