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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. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?
(a) Persuasive thinking, similar to Nietzsche's.
(b) The progression of creatures through evolution.
(c) God-given authority.
(d) The passage of time.

2. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?
(a) Man can begin with the desire for a blue world but should not end there.
(b) Man's desire for a blue world is only illusory.
(c) If a man always works toward a blue world, he will eventually succeed.
(d) Man must not be sidetracked onto changing every aspect of his world.

3. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.
(b) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.
(c) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.
(d) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.

4. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?
(a) Theatrics.
(b) Fairytales.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Infancy.

5. As the reader can infer from the beginning of Chapter Two, what is Hanwell?
(a) A prestigious church.
(b) The author's neighborhood.
(c) An insane asylum.
(d) A hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?

2. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?

3. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)

4. What is Pimlico?

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

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