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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. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Athanasian Creed.
(b) The Nicene Creed.
(c) The Disciples' Creed.
(d) The Apostles' Creed.

2. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?
(a) They are cosmic anti-patriots.
(b) They are opposed to optimists.
(c) They impede progress.
(d) They are opposed to religious beliefs in any form.

3. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(b) He went looking for something that is already known.
(c) He does not take its content seriously.
(d) He wrote it so he could win a bet.

4. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.
(b) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(c) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.
(d) Those who take women for granted.

5. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?
(a) If he has no evidence for his belief other than his desire to believe.
(b) If everything he knows supports that belief.
(c) If he has only scattered evidence for that belief.
(d) If he must defend it to people who oppose him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?

2. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?

3. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

4. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

5. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?

(see the answer key)

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