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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 is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?
(a) That anyone has been smart enough to understand the physical world.
(b) That one unknown thing following another unknown thing adds up to an understandable phenomenon.
(c) That people accept scientific theories without testing them for truth.
(d) That science has no relation to the world of fairytales.

2. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?
(a) It is suitable only for children.
(b) It greatly benefits a man's mental capacity.
(c) It is damaging to a man's mental capacity.
(d) It distracts a man unnecessarily.

3. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?
(a) A composite of happiness.
(b) A devotion to Christianity.
(c) A variety of racial backgrounds.
(d) A collection of cultures.

4. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."
(b) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(c) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."
(d) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."

5. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?
(a) To point out that liberal thinking is actually illiberal.
(b) To introduce the idea of Christian romance.
(c) To question the sentimental value of Christianity.
(d) To point out the paradoxes of Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the single true charge that Chesterton found against Christianity?

2. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

3. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?

4. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)

5. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?

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