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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 call suicide the greatest sin?
(a) Because it cuts off the future.
(b) Because man is acting like God.
(c) Because, in the eyes of one man, it kills the whole world.
(d) Because it takes a life God had given.

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

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

4. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?
(a) Small reason and enlarged common sense.
(b) Spiritual confusion and materialistic thinking.
(c) Narcissism and short-sightedness.
(d) Enlarged reason and small common sense.

5. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?
(a) That it is individual.
(b) That it is particular.
(c) That it has knowable consequences.
(d) That it is an action of freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

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

3. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?

4. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?

5. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

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