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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX: Authority and the Adventurer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton call the most common problem with the world?
(a) The world is too logical.
(b) The world is almost logical but not quite.
(c) The world is not logical at all.
(d) The world is governed by mathematical principles.

2. Why does Chesterton say that miracles are eminently desirable?
(a) Man can triumph over nature's cruelty.
(b) Religious people have the opportunity to prove their beliefs.
(c) Man can begin to understand God.
(d) Miracles give people a glimpse of the supernatural.

3. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(b) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."
(c) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."
(d) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."

4. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Claiming the new land for your own.
(b) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(c) Settling the new land and making it familiar.
(d) Returning home to the old land.

5. What taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?
(a) His gaze makes men's hearts quiver in fear.
(b) His salvation is not sufficient for all of humanity.
(c) His heart cannot soften the world.
(d) His breath turns the world gray.

Short Answer Questions

1. What moment does Chesterton point to as the single instant when God appeared to be atheist?

2. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?

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

4. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?

5. How does Chesterton explain the relationship between Christianity and the Dark Ages?

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