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

2. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in the Christian God.
(b) Some type of religious grounding.
(c) Belief in the power of progress.
(d) Belief in objective truth.

3. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?
(a) Well-educated readers.
(b) People who have read a large amount of Christian apologetics.
(c) Readers from Eastern culture.
(d) Readers from Western culture.

4. What is the title of Chapter I?
(a) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.
(b) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(c) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(d) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?

2. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?

3. How does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?

4. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?

5. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?

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