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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. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
(a) It also destroys his humanity.
(b) It cripples his free will.
(c) It acts as a liberating force.
(d) It also destroys his sense of hope.

2. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?
(a) In a man's perception of others.
(b) In a man's sense of conviction.
(c) In a man's view of himself.
(d) In a man's sense of ambition and effort.

3. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?
(a) Religion.
(b) First principles.
(c) Argumentation.
(d) Scientific absolutes.

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

5. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?
(a) Materialism cannot allow even a hint of the supernatural or strange.
(b) Materialism has no belief in an afterlife.
(c) Christianity encompasses all of Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Materialism has a smaller view of man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

3. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?

4. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

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

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