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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. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(b) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."
(c) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.
(d) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.

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

3. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?
(a) Small reason and enlarged common sense.
(b) Spiritual confusion and materialistic thinking.
(c) Enlarged reason and small common sense.
(d) Narcissism and short-sightedness.

4. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
(a) It also destroys his sense of hope.
(b) It cripples his free will.
(c) It also destroys his humanity.
(d) It acts as a liberating force.

5. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?
(a) As a mother.
(b) As a goddess.
(c) As a step-mother.
(d) As a laughing little sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?

2. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?

3. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?

4. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?

5. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?

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