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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 does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?
(a) Defining the past as a democracy that is long gone.
(b) Defining the past as an oligarchy.
(c) Thinking of one's ancestors as kings.
(d) Allowing one's ancestors to vote.

2. What two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?
(a) Sitting absolutely still or smashing the world for fun.
(b) Christianity or atheism.
(c) Overpopulation or extermination of humanity.
(d) Living a fairytale or living in hell.

3. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?
(a) He thinks fairy tales are harmful to a child's mind.
(b) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.
(c) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.
(d) He is surer of fairy tales than of anything else in the world.

4. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?
(a) Religion.
(b) God.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Reason.

5. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Some type of religious grounding.
(b) Belief in objective truth.
(c) Belief in the Christian God.
(d) Belief in the power of progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?

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

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

4. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

5. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?

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