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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 does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) The heavens.
(b) Imagination.
(c) God.
(d) The earth.

2. 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.

3. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).
(a) Its shocking history draws believers in.
(b) Its power contradicts its history.
(c) It does not represent the closed system of Eastern thought.
(d) Its arms extend throughout the whole world.

4. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?
(a) It is damaging to a man's mental capacity.
(b) It distracts a man unnecessarily.
(c) It greatly benefits a man's mental capacity.
(d) It is suitable only for children.

5. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?
(a) Unanswered questions.
(b) Reason.
(c) Religion.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?

2. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?

3. Who is Mr. Street?

4. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?

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

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