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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 choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?
(a) Accept a personal God or an impersonal force.
(b) Deny God or accept God.
(c) Deny or accept man's ability to raise himself to the heavens.
(d) Deny God or deny God's connection with man.

2. According to Chesterton, what effect does the moralists' attitude have on the cosmos?
(a) Fairy tales cannot explain the cosmos.
(b) There can never be anything interesting.
(c) There are exciting possibilities.
(d) God has no part in the cosmos or its creation.

3. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He notes five categories.
(b) He subdivides things into tiny categories.
(c) He says categories do not exist.
(d) He perceives twelve categories.

4. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?
(a) A prestigious church.
(b) An insane asylum.
(c) The author's neighborhood.
(d) A hospital.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?

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

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

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

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