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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 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.

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

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

4. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Poe.
(c) Dryden.
(d) Cowper.

5. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?
(a) He does not notice insignificant things.
(b) He cannot differentiate between careless and important acts.
(c) His world is comprised of careless acts.
(d) He sees purpose in every act.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?

2. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

3. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?

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

5. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

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