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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. 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.

2. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?
(a) If he must defend it to people who oppose him.
(b) If he has only scattered evidence for that belief.
(c) If everything he knows supports that belief.
(d) If he has no evidence for his belief other than his desire to believe.

3. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?
(a) A man prefers monotony.
(b) The notion itself must be able to change, in order to suit the age.
(c) Change cannot progress.
(d) Change, in itself, is narrow and tedious.

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

5. According to Chesterton, what effect does the moralists' attitude have on the cosmos?
(a) There can never be anything interesting.
(b) God has no part in the cosmos or its creation.
(c) There are exciting possibilities.
(d) Fairy tales cannot explain the cosmos.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

2. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?

3. What does Chesterton explain as his method for proving his argument?

4. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?

5. At the end of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what conclusion does Chesterton reach about orthodoxy?

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