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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 does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?
(a) They impede progress.
(b) They are opposed to religious beliefs in any form.
(c) They are opposed to optimists.
(d) They are cosmic anti-patriots.

2. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in the Christian God.
(b) Belief in the power of progress.
(c) Some type of religious grounding.
(d) Belief in objective truth.

3. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?
(a) When it brings conversion to the invalid.
(b) When the disease is gone.
(c) When it reveals the invalid's soul.
(d) When it is someone else's disease.

4. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?
(a) He is not humorous enough.
(b) He can only tell lies that he believes.
(c) He is too logical in his arguments.
(d) He tells too many lies.

5. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?
(a) He did not really find or invent it.
(b) It belongs to God and humanity.
(c) He is too modest to claim his own work.
(d) It is a way of living rather than a philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

2. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

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

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?

5. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?

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