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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI: The Paradoxes of Christianity.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are people who admire Christianity, but do not believe it, uncomfortable?
(a) Christianity was valid in the past but may not continue to be valid.
(b) Christianity is elaborately right.
(c) Christianity has only a few answers for their problems.
(d) Christianity has philosophical answers but not realistic answers.

2. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?
(a) Today's skeptic is not a Jacobin.
(b) Today's skeptic is not nearly so violent.
(c) Today's skeptic is a true revolutionary.
(d) Today's skeptic cannot even define what he trusts.

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

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He begins to distrust everything.
(b) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(c) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.
(d) He loses his right to speak out against anything.

5. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?
(a) Religion.
(b) Reason.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What definition does Chesterton find BEST for optimist and pessimist?

2. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?

3. What oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?

4. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?

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

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