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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. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(b) It deals well with evil.
(c) It has little conception of vice.
(d) It is full of wasted virtues.

2. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Athanasian Creed.
(b) The Nicene Creed.
(c) The Apostles' Creed.
(d) The Disciples' Creed.

3. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(b) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(c) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.
(d) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."

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

5. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?
(a) When it is someone else's disease.
(b) When the disease is gone.
(c) When it brings conversion to the invalid.
(d) When it reveals the invalid's soul.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?

3. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?

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

5. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?

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