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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 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.

2. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Claiming the new land for your own.
(b) Returning home to the old land.
(c) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(d) Settling the new land and making it familiar.

3. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) It has little conception of vice.
(b) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(c) It deals well with evil.
(d) It is full of wasted virtues.

4. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?
(a) It is a way of living rather than a philosophy.
(b) He is too modest to claim his own work.
(c) He did not really find or invent it.
(d) It belongs to God and humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?

2. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?

3. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?

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

5. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?

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