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

2. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?
(a) She provides courage to the French.
(b) She is everything that he admired.
(c) She is an icon of Christianity and courage.
(d) She turned her fright into courage, when faced with battle.

3. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) The sun.
(b) The moon.
(c) The ocean.
(d) A mountain.

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(b) He begins to distrust everything.
(c) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.
(d) He loses his right to speak out against anything.

5. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Righteous wrath.
(c) Forgiveness.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?

2. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

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

4. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

5. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?

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