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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. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?
(a) When it reveals the invalid's soul.
(b) When it brings conversion to the invalid.
(c) When it is someone else's disease.
(d) When the disease is gone.

2. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?
(a) Doubts of the Instrument.
(b) Understanding the Skeptical Mind.
(c) The Creeds and Hierarchies.
(d) Skepticism from a Philosophical Viewpoint.

3. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
(a) That "he honestly angers honest men."
(b) That "he does not love what he chastises."
(c) That "he chastises gods and men."
(d) That "he will defend the indefensible."

4. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?
(a) Because it takes a life God had given.
(b) Because, in the eyes of one man, it kills the whole world.
(c) Because it cuts off the future.
(d) Because man is acting like God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?

2. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?

3. Why does Chesterton say that miracles are eminently desirable?

4. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?

5. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?

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