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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. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?
(a) They achieve far more than other men do.
(b) They are never properly appreciated.
(c) They have difficulty maintaining that belief.
(d) They end up in insane asylums.

2. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) God.
(b) The earth.
(c) The heavens.
(d) Imagination.

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

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. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.
(b) Only a man can rule himself.
(c) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.
(d) The most important things must be done by individuals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

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

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

4. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

5. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?

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