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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 Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?
(a) That people accept scientific theories without testing them for truth.
(b) That anyone has been smart enough to understand the physical world.
(c) That science has no relation to the world of fairytales.
(d) That one unknown thing following another unknown thing adds up to an understandable phenomenon.
2. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?
(a) Change, in itself, is narrow and tedious.
(b) Change cannot progress.
(c) The notion itself must be able to change, in order to suit the age.
(d) A man prefers monotony.
3. Who is Mr. Street?
(a) A journalist who first reviewed the book Orthodoxy.
(b) A philosopher who probably opposes Chesterton.
(c) The man most affected by the book.
(d) A character in one of Chesterton's tales.
4. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Shifting the foundations of the sea.
(b) Tilting the earth on its axis.
(c) Arguing with a learned philosopher.
(d) Casting out a demon.
5. What is the title of Chapter I?
(a) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.
(b) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.
(c) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(d) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
2. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?
3. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
4. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?
5. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?
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