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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. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?
(a) Lunatics.
(b) Believers.
(c) Priests.
(d) Atheists.

2. What is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?
(a) That science has no relation to the world of fairytales.
(b) That anyone has been smart enough to understand the physical world.
(c) That one unknown thing following another unknown thing adds up to an understandable phenomenon.
(d) That people accept scientific theories without testing them for truth.

3. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?
(a) He navigates by the sun rather than by the stars.
(b) He thinks England is a new island in the South Seas.
(c) He does not take enough fresh water.
(d) From the harbor, he sets out in the wrong direction.

4. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.
(b) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(c) They are separate from the Bible.
(d) They are not truly Christian.

5. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As an infinite line.
(b) As a small, perfect circle.
(c) As a tangle of threads.
(d) As a precise box.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?

3. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?

4. According to Chesterton, who is the only person to whom a modern realistic novel would not be boring?

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

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