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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII: The Romance of Orthodoxy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mr. Blatchford?
(a) A humanitarian.
(b) A martyr.
(c) An early Christian.
(d) A pagan.

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

3. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?
(a) Believers.
(b) Priests.
(c) Lunatics.
(d) Atheists.

4. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?
(a) He navigates by the sun rather than by the stars.
(b) He thinks England is a new island in the South Seas.
(c) From the harbor, he sets out in the wrong direction.
(d) He does not take enough fresh water.

5. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
(a) They could not be lived out.
(b) They were not fully truth.
(c) They were not his.
(d) They contradicted each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?

2. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?

3. Chesterton chooses miracles as his first example regarding liberal thinking. What does he call this example?

4. What is Chesterton's amazement at scientific advancement?

5. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?

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