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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. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?
(a) Today's skeptic cannot even define what he trusts.
(b) Today's skeptic is a true revolutionary.
(c) Today's skeptic is not nearly so violent.
(d) Today's skeptic is not a Jacobin.

2. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?
(a) Materialism has a smaller view of man.
(b) Christianity encompasses all of Judeo-Christian tradition.
(c) Materialism has no belief in an afterlife.
(d) Materialism cannot allow even a hint of the supernatural or strange.

3. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
(a) They contradicted each other.
(b) They were not fully truth.
(c) They were not his.
(d) They could not be lived out.

4. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Biblical authority for the creed.
(b) Where Christians get the authority for the creed.
(c) The history behind the creed.
(d) The practical outworking of the creed.

5. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Some type of religious grounding.
(b) Belief in the Christian God.
(c) Belief in the power of progress.
(d) Belief in objective truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?

2. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

3. How does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?

4. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?

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

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