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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 does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?
(a) The desire for religious answers.
(b) The presumption that Christianity is right.
(c) The desire for an imaginative, interesting life.
(d) The presumption of skepticism toward religion.

2. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?
(a) He searches for extraordinary truths.
(b) He finds great, unsearchable truths.
(c) He loses hope that truth exists.
(d) He loses hope that he, a mortal, can ever find the truth.

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Sin.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Mercy.

4. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.
(b) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.
(c) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.
(d) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?

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

4. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

5. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?

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