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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 evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Science.
(b) Modern intelligence.
(c) Reason.
(d) Religion.

2. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Fanciful thinking.
(c) Brashness.
(d) Helplessness.

3. 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.

4. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
(a) Romance.
(b) Incarnation.
(c) Transubstantiation.
(d) Mystery.

5. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it is just.
(b) He thinks it is unjust.
(c) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(d) He thinks it is immaterial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?

2. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?

3. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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