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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 choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?
(a) Deny God or deny God's connection with man.
(b) Deny or accept man's ability to raise himself to the heavens.
(c) Accept a personal God or an impersonal force.
(d) Deny God or accept God.

2. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?
(a) He finds great, unsearchable truths.
(b) He searches for extraordinary truths.
(c) He loses hope that he, a mortal, can ever find the truth.
(d) He loses hope that truth exists.

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Sin.

4. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?
(a) Chesterton's quest was fruitless from the beginning, but it took him a long time to realize it.
(b) Chesterton has a good sense of humor.
(c) Chesterton tells stories rather than arguing a point.
(d) Chesterton wandered far to discover the truths he could have found in the nearby church.

5. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(b) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.
(c) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(d) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?

2. What is the title of Chapter I?

3. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?

4. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?

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

(see the answer key)

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