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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. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?
(a) There are no answers to be found.
(b) He will never find the answers.
(c) No one else can think for him.
(d) He has no right to think for himself.

2. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(b) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(c) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.
(d) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.

3. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
(a) Romance.
(b) Mystery.
(c) Incarnation.
(d) Transubstantiation.

4. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?
(a) Showing, through every facet, that the Christian faith is true.
(b) Being simultaneously surprised by and at home in the world.
(c) Constantly seeking the new idea.
(d) Defending tradition in the face of unnecessary change.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?

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

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

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

5. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

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