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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV: The Ethics of Elfland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Poe.
(b) Dryden.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Cowper.

2. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?
(a) He did not really find or invent it.
(b) It belongs to God and humanity.
(c) It is a way of living rather than a philosophy.
(d) He is too modest to claim his own work.

3. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?
(a) Reason.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Religion.
(d) Unanswered questions.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?

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

3. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

4. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?

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

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