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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 concerning the boundaries of the will?
(a) The will frees a man.
(b) The will has boundaries only if it is not a free action.
(c) The will is limiting to the man.
(d) The will defines a man's actions fully.

2. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?
(a) They cannot see the riddle.
(b) They cannot find the answer.
(c) They are intellectually lazy.
(d) They have no hope of finding the answer.

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

4. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?
(a) They achieve far more than other men do.
(b) They end up in insane asylums.
(c) They have difficulty maintaining that belief.
(d) They are never properly appreciated.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?

3. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

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

5. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

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