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

2. "[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 just.
(b) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(c) He thinks it is immaterial.
(d) He thinks it is unjust.

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

4. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) An understanding of the heavens.
(b) A world to stretch out in.
(c) A raft to float on.
(d) The ability to cross the infinite sea.

5. 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 people accept scientific theories without testing them for truth.
(d) That one unknown thing following another unknown thing adds up to an understandable phenomenon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

3. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

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

5. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

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