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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, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?
(a) He tells too many lies.
(b) He can only tell lies that he believes.
(c) He is too logical in his arguments.
(d) He is not humorous enough.

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

3. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Reason.
(c) Religion.
(d) God.

4. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) He wrote it so he could win a bet.
(b) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(c) He does not take its content seriously.
(d) He went looking for something that is already known.

5. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Claiming the new land for your own.
(b) Returning home to the old land.
(c) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(d) Settling the new land and making it familiar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

3. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?

4. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?

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

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