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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 define tradition in political terms?
(a) Defining the past as a democracy that is long gone.
(b) Thinking of one's ancestors as kings.
(c) Allowing one's ancestors to vote.
(d) Defining the past as an oligarchy.
2. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)
(a) Confusing people with too much data.
(b) Tracking man's progress poorly.
(c) Changing the standards rather than becoming better.
(d) Defining man's progress in terms of religion.
3. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?
(a) Constantly seeking the new idea.
(b) Showing, through every facet, that the Christian faith is true.
(c) Defending tradition in the face of unnecessary change.
(d) Being simultaneously surprised by and at home in the world.
4. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Settling the new land and making it familiar.
(b) Claiming the new land for your own.
(c) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(d) Returning home to the old land.
5. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?
(a) They connect a man directly to God, who is greater.
(b) They speak to man's sense of accomplishment.
(c) A man must be small to appreciate their size.
(d) They remind man how far he still must go.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?
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?
3. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
4. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
5. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?
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