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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII: The Romance of Orthodoxy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?
(a) People who have read a large amount of Christian apologetics.
(b) Readers from Western culture.
(c) Well-educated readers.
(d) Readers from Eastern culture.

2. What is Chesterton's stated purpose in Chapter VI, the Paradoxes of Christianity
(a) To show that Christianity has an answer for every problem.
(b) To show that Christianity is fully logical.
(c) To show that Christianity's irregularities are matched in its truths.
(d) To show that Christianity cannot account for irregularities.

3. Who is Mr. Street?
(a) The man most affected by the book.
(b) A character in one of Chesterton's tales.
(c) A journalist who first reviewed the book Orthodoxy.
(d) A philosopher who probably opposes Chesterton.

4. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it is just.
(b) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(c) He thinks it is immaterial.
(d) He thinks it is unjust.

5. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?
(a) The desire for religious answers.
(b) The desire for an imaginative, interesting life.
(c) The presumption that Christianity is right.
(d) The presumption of skepticism toward religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?

2. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

4. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?

5. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?

(see the answer key)

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