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

2. Why does Christianity mark the graves of the martyr and the suicide?
(a) To show the horror of the suicide.
(b) To praise the martyr by his opposite.
(c) To show him who died for the sake of life and he who died for the sake of death.
(d) To remember both with sadness.

3. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The history behind the creed.
(b) The Biblical authority for the creed.
(c) Where Christians get the authority for the creed.
(d) The practical outworking of the creed.

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

5. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."
(b) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(c) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(d) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?

2. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?

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

4. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?

5. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?

(see the answer key)

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