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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. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because it relates to God.
(b) Because man cannot truly understand creation.
(c) Because man can never prove the principle.
(d) Because it is necessarily verbal.

2. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?
(a) He didn't want to acknowledge Christ's divinity.
(b) His materialism did not allow it.
(c) His scientific mind told him it was impossible.
(d) His liberal Christianity did not allow it.

3. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?
(a) With contempt.
(b) With disbelief.
(c) With awe.
(d) With admiration.

4. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God is all-powerful and created the world.
(b) God is loving and created the world in his image.
(c) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(d) God can be found in the nature that he made.

5. In moving through fairyland, what is the test of happiness, according to Chesterton?
(a) Reciprocity.
(b) Goodness.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Gratitude.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?

2. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?

3. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?

4. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

5. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?

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