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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 did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?
(a) Traces of Christianity were found in the writings.
(b) He formulated responses to their arguments.
(c) He stopped believing the skeptics and evolutionists.
(d) He was not convinced by their arguments.
2. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?
(a) He cannot differentiate between careless and important acts.
(b) His world is comprised of careless acts.
(c) He does not notice insignificant things.
(d) He sees purpose in every act.
3. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in objective truth.
(b) Belief in the power of progress.
(c) Some type of religious grounding.
(d) Belief in the Christian God.
4. What is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?
(a) That anyone has been smart enough to understand the physical world.
(b) That one unknown thing following another unknown thing adds up to an understandable phenomenon.
(c) That people accept scientific theories without testing them for truth.
(d) That science has no relation to the world of fairytales.
5. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(b) He thinks it is just.
(c) He thinks it is unjust.
(d) He thinks it is immaterial.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Mr. Street?
2. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?
3. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?
4. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?
5. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?
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