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

2. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?
(a) The will has boundaries only if it is not a free action.
(b) The will frees a man.
(c) The will defines a man's actions fully.
(d) The will is limiting to the man.

3. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?
(a) Modern satire takes different forms than literature.
(b) There is nothing to be fierce about.
(c) Satire is too violent for the modern mind.
(d) Writers are not taught to appreciate satire.

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?
(a) They are intellectually lazy.
(b) They cannot find the answer.
(c) They have no hope of finding the answer.
(d) They cannot see the riddle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

2. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?

3. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

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

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

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