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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 document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Apostles' Creed.
(b) The Disciples' Creed.
(c) The Nicene Creed.
(d) The Athanasian Creed.

2. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?
(a) He is too stupid to understand fairy tales.
(b) His Irish heritage opens his eyes to the wonders of fairyland.
(c) He is close to understanding fairy tales but cannot write them well.
(d) He understands fairy tales better than any other poet.

3. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(b) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."
(c) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."
(d) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."

4. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As a small, perfect circle.
(c) As an infinite line.
(d) As a tangle of threads.

5. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?
(a) He searches for extraordinary truths.
(b) He loses hope that truth exists.
(c) He loses hope that he, a mortal, can ever find the truth.
(d) He finds great, unsearchable truths.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

3. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

4. What words does Chesterton prefer when referring to nature?

5. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

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