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

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

3. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
(a) It also destroys his humanity.
(b) It also destroys his sense of hope.
(c) It acts as a liberating force.
(d) It cripples his free will.

4. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?
(a) The desire for an imaginative, interesting life.
(b) The presumption that Christianity is right.
(c) The desire for religious answers.
(d) The presumption of skepticism toward religion.

5. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?
(a) Small reason and enlarged common sense.
(b) Narcissism and short-sightedness.
(c) Spiritual confusion and materialistic thinking.
(d) Enlarged reason and small common sense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?

2. According to Chesterton, what effect does the moralists' attitude have on the cosmos?

3. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)

4. "[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?

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

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