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

2. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.
(b) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.
(c) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.
(d) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.

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

4. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The history behind the creed.
(b) Where Christians get the authority for the creed.
(c) The practical outworking of the creed.
(d) The Biblical authority for the creed.

5. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?
(a) Enforcing the necessity of certain acts.
(b) Changing the environment.
(c) Asserting that the world is a closed system.
(d) Enforcing the power of free will.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?

2. What does Chesterton explain as his method for proving his argument?

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

4. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

5. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?

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