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

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

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

4. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?
(a) The author's neighborhood.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A prestigious church.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

2. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?

3. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?

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

5. What is the title of Chapter I?

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