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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 assume as common ground between him and any reader?
(a) The presumption that Christianity is right.
(b) The desire for religious answers.
(c) The presumption of skepticism toward religion.
(d) The desire for an imaginative, interesting life.

2. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?
(a) An illogical argument.
(b) A blatant lie.
(c) Pure sophistry.
(d) The creativity of desperation.

3. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
(a) It acts as a liberating force.
(b) It cripples his free will.
(c) It also destroys his sense of hope.
(d) It also destroys his humanity.

4. What is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?
(a) That science has no relation to the world of fairytales.
(b) That one unknown thing following another unknown thing adds up to an understandable phenomenon.
(c) That people accept scientific theories without testing them for truth.
(d) That anyone has been smart enough to understand the physical world.

5. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?
(a) Theatrics.
(b) Infancy.
(c) Fairytales.
(d) Repetition.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?

2. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?

3. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?

4. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

5. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?

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