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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. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?
(a) Today's skeptic cannot even define what he trusts.
(b) Today's skeptic is a true revolutionary.
(c) Today's skeptic is not nearly so violent.
(d) Today's skeptic is not a Jacobin.

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

3. How does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?
(a) Defining the past as a democracy that is long gone.
(b) Allowing one's ancestors to vote.
(c) Defining the past as an oligarchy.
(d) Thinking of one's ancestors as kings.

4. What is Pimlico?
(a) A dreary English town.
(b) Chesterton's favorite dog.
(c) A dreary American town.
(d) An English newspaper.

5. What problem did Christianity solve which Paganism could not?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Salvation.
(c) Balance.
(d) A personal God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?

2. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?

3. According to Chesterton, what mindset, paralleling patriotism, leads to reform?

4. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)

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

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