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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. Who is Mr. Blatchford?
(a) A humanitarian.
(b) A pagan.
(c) A martyr.
(d) An early Christian.

2. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in the Christian God.
(b) Belief in the power of progress.
(c) Some type of religious grounding.
(d) Belief in objective truth.

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

4. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(b) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."
(c) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(d) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.

5. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Religion.
(b) Modern intelligence.
(c) Science.
(d) Reason.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?

2. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?

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

4. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?

5. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?

(see the answer key)

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