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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 say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because it relates to God.
(b) Because man cannot truly understand creation.
(c) Because it is necessarily verbal.
(d) Because man can never prove the principle.

2. In moving through fairyland, what is the test of happiness, according to Chesterton?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Reciprocity.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Surprise.

3. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Reason.
(c) Unanswered questions.
(d) Religion.

4. What reason does Chesterton give for the idea that love craves personality?
(a) Love desires human quirks, including problems.
(b) Love desires difference and division.
(c) Love desires a human object.
(d) Love desire reciprocation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is losing its authority in the modern mind?

2. Why does Chesterton think glass is so often used in fairy tales?

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

4. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?

5. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

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