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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 Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?
(a) He is surer of fairy tales than of anything else in the world.
(b) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.
(c) He thinks fairy tales are harmful to a child's mind.
(d) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.

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

3. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?
(a) Enforcing the necessity of certain acts.
(b) Asserting that the world is a closed system.
(c) Enforcing the power of free will.
(d) Changing the environment.

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

5. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?
(a) When the disease is gone.
(b) When it reveals the invalid's soul.
(c) When it is someone else's disease.
(d) When it brings conversion to the invalid.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?

2. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)

3. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?

4. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?

5. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?

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