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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. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?
(a) He did not really find or invent it.
(b) He is too modest to claim his own work.
(c) It is a way of living rather than a philosophy.
(d) It belongs to God and humanity.
2. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
(a) That "he will defend the indefensible."
(b) That "he honestly angers honest men."
(c) That "he does not love what he chastises."
(d) That "he chastises gods and men."
3. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
(a) He found that the heresy was untenable.
(b) He found that he no longer believed it.
(c) He found that it was orthodoxy.
(d) He found that the heresy was paganism.
4. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?
(a) Christianity could not answer any of his questions.
(b) Christianity could lead him to the answers.
(c) Buddhism shed some light on his questions.
(d) Christianity arrived there first.
5. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in objective truth.
(b) Belief in the Christian God.
(c) Some type of religious grounding.
(d) Belief in the power of progress.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
2. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?
3. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
4. At the beginning of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton call the most common problem with the world?
5. What does Chesterton call "the most difficult and interesting part of the mental process" that he reached? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 247)
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