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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. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?
(a) Showing, through every facet, that the Christian faith is true.
(b) Defending tradition in the face of unnecessary change.
(c) Being simultaneously surprised by and at home in the world.
(d) Constantly seeking the new idea.

2. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) He went looking for something that is already known.
(b) He does not take its content seriously.
(c) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(d) He wrote it so he could win a bet.

3. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?
(a) They connect a man directly to God, who is greater.
(b) They speak to man's sense of accomplishment.
(c) A man must be small to appreciate their size.
(d) They remind man how far he still must go.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?

2. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?

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

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