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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. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(b) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.
(c) Those who take women for granted.
(d) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.

2. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?
(a) His liberal Christianity did not allow it.
(b) His materialism did not allow it.
(c) His scientific mind told him it was impossible.
(d) He didn't want to acknowledge Christ's divinity.

3. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?
(a) He stopped believing the skeptics and evolutionists.
(b) He formulated responses to their arguments.
(c) Traces of Christianity were found in the writings.
(d) He was not convinced by their arguments.

4. Why does Chesterton think glass is so often used in fairy tales?
(a) Glass is cheap and common.
(b) Glass easily portrays vivid emotions like anger.
(c) Glass is unusual for shoes and houses, and fitting to fairy tales.
(d) Glass, like happiness, is easily broken.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?

2. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?

3. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

4. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?

5. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?

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