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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: The Suicide of Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?
(a) To illustrate his idea of wonder.
(b) To explain his picture of God.
(c) He is that sailor.
(d) The sailor will appear throughout the book.

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

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?
(a) They cannot find the answer.
(b) They have no hope of finding the answer.
(c) They are intellectually lazy.
(d) They cannot see the riddle.

5. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?
(a) Materialism has no belief in an afterlife.
(b) Materialism cannot allow even a hint of the supernatural or strange.
(c) Christianity encompasses all of Judeo-Christian tradition.
(d) Materialism has a smaller view of man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

3. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?

4. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

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

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