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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II: The Maniac.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As a tangle of threads.
(c) As an infinite line.
(d) As a small, perfect circle.

2. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).
(a) Its arms extend throughout the whole world.
(b) Its power contradicts its history.
(c) It does not represent the closed system of Eastern thought.
(d) Its shocking history draws believers in.

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Sin.
(d) Righteous wrath.

4. What is the title of Chapter I?
(a) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(b) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(c) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.
(d) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.

5. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?
(a) The hero is boring and not surprised by the adventures.
(b) The hero has no precedent for resolution to the conflict.
(c) There is no original model for a hero.
(d) The hero is now abnormal and his adventures are not surprising.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?

2. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?

3. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?

4. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?

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

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