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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 is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
(a) That "he does not love what he chastises."
(b) That "he chastises gods and men."
(c) That "he will defend the indefensible."
(d) That "he honestly angers honest men."

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

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

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

5. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Apostles' Creed.
(b) The Nicene Creed.
(c) The Athanasian Creed.
(d) The Disciples' Creed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

2. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?

3. Why are people who admire Christianity, but do not believe it, uncomfortable?

4. According to Chesterton, who is the only person to whom a modern realistic novel would not be boring?

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

(see the answer key)

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