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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 think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Shock therapy.
(b) Not thinking.
(c) Being isolated.
(d) Not feeling.

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

3. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?
(a) Change, in itself, is narrow and tedious.
(b) Change cannot progress.
(c) The notion itself must be able to change, in order to suit the age.
(d) A man prefers monotony.

4. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?
(a) Because he had to work through his religious beliefs.
(b) Because he had a well-crafted argument for Christianity.
(c) In response to a challenge.
(d) As a personal challenge to himself.

5. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?
(a) To explain his picture of God.
(b) He is that sailor.
(c) The sailor will appear throughout the book.
(d) To illustrate his idea of wonder.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

2. "[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?

3. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?

4. Why does Chesterton think glass is so often used in fairy tales?

5. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?

(see the answer key)

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