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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 keeps a man sane?
(a) Religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) God.
(d) Mysticism.

2. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(b) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(c) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."
(d) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.

3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?
(a) Proving from every angle that any one faith is true.
(b) Proving that materialism is an insufficient worldview.
(c) Proving the Christianity is true.
(d) Explaining the intricacies of Christianity.

4. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?
(a) He is very proud of it.
(b) He would never read it.
(c) He wants to write a sequel.
(d) It is not perfect but he's happy.

5. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
(a) He found that the heresy was paganism.
(b) He found that the heresy was untenable.
(c) He found that it was orthodoxy.
(d) He found that he no longer believed it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

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

3. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?

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

5. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?

(see the answer key)

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