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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. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
(a) They were not fully truth.
(b) They were not his.
(c) They contradicted each other.
(d) They could not be lived out.

2. What does Chesterton explain as his method for proving his argument?
(a) Presenting each tenet of a well-reasoned case for Christianity.
(b) Laying out each argument as he refuted the skeptics.
(c) Laying out arguments as he had thought of them, and then discovering they were already proven in Christianity.
(d) Laying out arguments with an acronym he came up with for his faith.

3. How does Chesterton's belief in Christianity relate to an agnostic's unbelief?
(a) Both have deep roots in man's superstitious nature.
(b) Both are based on evidence.
(c) Both are based on authoritative writings.
(d) Both are based solely on evidence of the world.

4. Why did Chesterton find his accumulation of small facts powerful?
(a) Because they came from sources that most people accept as authoritative.
(b) Because they fit together into a cohesive whole.
(c) Because they all proved his thesis.
(d) Because they all pointed to Christianity.

5. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?
(a) A person looks for ethical support.
(b) A person works harder to achieve this.
(c) A person becomes lazy.
(d) A person ceases to believe in progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

2. What is Chesterton's first criterion for progress?

3. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?

4. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?

5. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?

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