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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, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?
(a) In a man's sense of conviction.
(b) In a man's perception of others.
(c) In a man's view of himself.
(d) In a man's sense of ambition and effort.

2. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?
(a) Because man can fully understand it.
(b) Because there is nothing to compare it to.
(c) Because fairy tales explain it.
(d) Because God made it.

3. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Shock therapy.
(b) Not thinking.
(c) Not feeling.
(d) Being isolated.

4. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?
(a) He is close to understanding fairy tales but cannot write them well.
(b) He is too stupid to understand fairy tales.
(c) He understands fairy tales better than any other poet.
(d) His Irish heritage opens his eyes to the wonders of fairyland.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?

2. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?

3. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

4. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?

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

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