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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. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?
(a) They achieve far more than other men do.
(b) They are never properly appreciated.
(c) They end up in insane asylums.
(d) They have difficulty maintaining that belief.
2. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a small, perfect circle.
(b) As a precise box.
(c) As a tangle of threads.
(d) As an infinite line.
3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?
(a) Explaining the intricacies of Christianity.
(b) Proving the Christianity is true.
(c) Proving that materialism is an insufficient worldview.
(d) Proving from every angle that any one faith is true.
4. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?
(a) Because he had to work through his religious beliefs.
(b) In response to a challenge.
(c) As a personal challenge to himself.
(d) Because he had a well-crafted argument for Christianity.
5. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?
(a) The hero is now abnormal and his adventures are not surprising.
(b) There is no original model for a hero.
(c) The hero has no precedent for resolution to the conflict.
(d) The hero is boring and not surprised by the adventures.
Short Answer Questions
1. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
2. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
3. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
4. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
5. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
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