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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 think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Not feeling.
(b) Shock therapy.
(c) Being isolated.
(d) Not thinking.

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

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

4. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
(a) They were not his.
(b) They contradicted each other.
(c) They were not fully truth.
(d) They could not be lived out.

5. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?
(a) The creativity of desperation.
(b) An illogical argument.
(c) Pure sophistry.
(d) A blatant lie.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

2. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

3. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

4. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

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

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