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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. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
(a) He found that the heresy was paganism.
(b) He found that he no longer believed it.
(c) He found that the heresy was untenable.
(d) He found that it was orthodoxy.

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

3. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.
(b) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.
(c) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.
(d) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.

4. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The practical outworking of the creed.
(b) The history behind the creed.
(c) Where Christians get the authority for the creed.
(d) The Biblical authority for the creed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

2. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

3. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?

4. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?

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

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