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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 is the title of Chapter I?
(a) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.
(b) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.
(c) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(d) The Romance of Orthodoxy.

2. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) A mountain.
(b) The sun.
(c) The moon.
(d) The ocean.

3. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?
(a) The religion that worships multiple gods.
(b) The religion that worships the god inside.
(c) The religion that debases a man.
(d) The religion of the Christian God.

4. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?
(a) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.
(b) He thinks fairy tales are harmful to a child's mind.
(c) He is surer of fairy tales than of anything else in the world.
(d) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.

5. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) God.
(b) The earth.
(c) Imagination.
(d) The heavens.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?

2. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?

3. What does Chesterton see as the purpose of the boundaries established by Christianity?

4. What does Chesterton name as the second principle of democracy?

5. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?

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