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

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

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

4. 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.

5. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?
(a) No one else can think for him.
(b) There are no answers to be found.
(c) He will never find the answers.
(d) He has no right to think for himself.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

4. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?

5. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

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