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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 in Defense of Everything Else.
(b) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(c) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(d) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.

2. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?
(a) It greatly benefits a man's mental capacity.
(b) It distracts a man unnecessarily.
(c) It is suitable only for children.
(d) It is damaging to a man's mental capacity.

3. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?
(a) Asserting that the world is a closed system.
(b) Changing the environment.
(c) Enforcing the power of free will.
(d) Enforcing the necessity of certain acts.

4. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?
(a) He did not really find or invent it.
(b) It belongs to God and humanity.
(c) It is a way of living rather than a philosophy.
(d) He is too modest to claim his own work.

5. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?
(a) Enlarged reason and small common sense.
(b) Narcissism and short-sightedness.
(c) Small reason and enlarged common sense.
(d) Spiritual confusion and materialistic thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

2. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?

3. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?

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

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

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