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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) The author's neighborhood.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) A hospital.
(d) A prestigious church.

2. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) He went looking for something that is already known.
(b) He wrote it so he could win a bet.
(c) He does not take its content seriously.
(d) No one around him agrees with his argument.

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

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

5. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Tilting the earth on its axis.
(b) Arguing with a learned philosopher.
(c) Casting out a demon.
(d) Shifting the foundations of the sea.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

3. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?

4. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?

5. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?

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