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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. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).
(a) Its shocking history draws believers in.
(b) It does not represent the closed system of Eastern thought.
(c) Its arms extend throughout the whole world.
(d) Its power contradicts its history.

2. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?
(a) There are no answers to be found.
(b) No one else can think for him.
(c) He will never find the answers.
(d) He has no right to think for himself.

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

4. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?
(a) Because he had to work through his religious beliefs.
(b) As a personal challenge to himself.
(c) Because he had a well-crafted argument for Christianity.
(d) In response to a challenge.

5. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?
(a) Enforcing the necessity of certain acts.
(b) Enforcing the power of free will.
(c) Asserting that the world is a closed system.
(d) Changing the environment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?

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

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

4. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

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

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