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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 evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Science.
(b) Modern intelligence.
(c) Reason.
(d) Religion.

2. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?
(a) The idealists and pantheists.
(b) The people who hated Marcus Aurelius.
(c) The last Stoics and the Quakers.
(d) The early Christians.

3. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?
(a) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.
(b) He is surer of fairy tales than of anything else in the world.
(c) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.
(d) He thinks fairy tales are harmful to a child's mind.

4. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Mercy.
(d) Sin.

5. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?
(a) He searches for extraordinary truths.
(b) He loses hope that he, a mortal, can ever find the truth.
(c) He finds great, unsearchable truths.
(d) He loses hope that truth exists.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?

3. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?

4. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)

5. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

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