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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 does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.
(b) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.
(c) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(d) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.

2. What taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?
(a) His gaze makes men's hearts quiver in fear.
(b) His salvation is not sufficient for all of humanity.
(c) His heart cannot soften the world.
(d) His breath turns the world gray.

3. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

4. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?
(a) The creativity of desperation.
(b) An illogical argument.
(c) A blatant lie.
(d) Pure sophistry.

5. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)
(a) The land was lit up even back to his childhood.
(b) The army had fled before the light of his revelation.
(c) The dragon had been conquered.
(d) Fairyland was no longer important to his thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?

2. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?

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

4. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

5. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?

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