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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 happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
(a) He found that he no longer believed it.
(b) He found that it was orthodoxy.
(c) He found that the heresy was paganism.
(d) He found that the heresy was untenable.

2. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?
(a) It is damaging to a man's mental capacity.
(b) It is suitable only for children.
(c) It distracts a man unnecessarily.
(d) It greatly benefits a man's mental capacity.

3. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) A world to stretch out in.
(b) The ability to cross the infinite sea.
(c) An understanding of the heavens.
(d) A raft to float on.

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

5. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.
(b) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(c) They are separate from the Bible.
(d) They are not truly Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

2. Who is Mr. Street?

3. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)

4. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?

5. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?

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