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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 in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Shifting the foundations of the sea.
(b) Arguing with a learned philosopher.
(c) Tilting the earth on its axis.
(d) Casting out a demon.

2. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) A mountain.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

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

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

5. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
(a) It acts as a liberating force.
(b) It cripples his free will.
(c) It also destroys his humanity.
(d) It also destroys his sense of hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

2. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

4. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

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

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