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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. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?
(a) By teaching tradition to their children.
(b) By safe-guarding their culture.
(c) By safe-guarding their religion.
(d) By consciously working out a moral code.

2. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?
(a) Materialism cannot allow even a hint of the supernatural or strange.
(b) Materialism has no belief in an afterlife.
(c) Materialism has a smaller view of man.
(d) Christianity encompasses all of Judeo-Christian tradition.

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) A lonely woman and her lonely child.
(b) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.
(c) A crushed moth and a live one.
(d) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.

4. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?
(a) He is too logical in his arguments.
(b) He can only tell lies that he believes.
(c) He is not humorous enough.
(d) He tells too many lies.

5. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?
(a) Proving the Christianity is true.
(b) Explaining the intricacies of Christianity.
(c) Proving from every angle that any one faith is true.
(d) Proving that materialism is an insufficient worldview.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?

2. "[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?

3. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

4. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?

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

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