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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. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?
(a) Western religion says that no person should be alone.
(b) Western religion says that the family unit is the only important social organism.
(c) Western religion says that the church provides the only stable society.
(d) Western religion says that social organisms are harmful to faith.

2. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.
(b) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(c) A crushed moth and a live one.
(d) A lonely woman and her lonely child.

3. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
(a) Incarnation.
(b) Romance.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Transubstantiation.

4. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?
(a) Orthodoxy manifests itself as revolution.
(b) It's a trick question - he cannot.
(c) Revolution means restoration.
(d) Revolution coincides with orthodoxy.

5. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
(a) It must be a utopia.
(b) It must be heavenly.
(c) It must be earthly.
(d) It must be like Eden.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

2. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?

3. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?

4. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

5. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

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