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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 define tradition in political terms?
(a) Thinking of one's ancestors as kings.
(b) Defining the past as an oligarchy.
(c) Defining the past as a democracy that is long gone.
(d) Allowing one's ancestors to vote.

2. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?
(a) The presumption of skepticism toward religion.
(b) The desire for religious answers.
(c) The presumption that Christianity is right.
(d) The desire for an imaginative, interesting life.

3. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?
(a) Men act as individuals.
(b) Men act within the body of citizens.
(c) The essential things are those they hold in common.
(d) The essential things are those they hold as individuals.

4. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He begins to distrust everything.
(b) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.
(c) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.
(d) He loses his right to speak out against anything.

5. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) The most important things must be done by individuals.
(b) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.
(c) Only a man can rule himself.
(d) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?

2. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?

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

4. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?

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

(see the answer key)

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