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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 is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?
(a) Skepticism from a Philosophical Viewpoint.
(b) Doubts of the Instrument.
(c) The Creeds and Hierarchies.
(d) Understanding the Skeptical Mind.

2. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?
(a) Because God made it.
(b) Because there is nothing to compare it to.
(c) Because fairy tales explain it.
(d) Because man can fully understand it.

3. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in the power of progress.
(b) Belief in the Christian God.
(c) Belief in objective truth.
(d) Some type of religious grounding.

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

5. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it is unjust.
(b) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(c) He thinks it is just.
(d) He thinks it is immaterial.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?

2. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

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

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

5. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?

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