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

2. Who is Mr. Street?
(a) The man most affected by the book.
(b) A character in one of Chesterton's tales.
(c) A philosopher who probably opposes Chesterton.
(d) A journalist who first reviewed the book Orthodoxy.

3. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?
(a) Paltry.
(b) Self-sufficient.
(c) Egotistical.
(d) Altruistic.

4. What does Chesterton name as the chief pleasure?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Security.

5. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) A crushed moth and a live one.
(b) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(c) A lonely woman and her lonely child.
(d) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?

2. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

3. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?

4. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

5. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?

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