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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 examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) A lonely woman and her lonely child.
(b) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.
(c) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(d) A crushed moth and a live one.

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

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

4. In looking at Christianity and materialism, what coincidence stopped Chesterton in his tracks?
(a) That Christianity was accused of being both too holy and too inane.
(b) That Christianity was accused of being both too optimistic and too pessimistic.
(c) That the materialists could not agree on a definition of their worldview.
(d) That the scientists directly contradicted their theories of evolution.

5. According to Chesterton, what is the problem with moving slowly toward justice?
(a) It does not allow a man to move swiftly toward a better state of things.
(b) A man will only be able to act on old ideas.
(c) The definition of justice changes too often in that time.
(d) People cannot make just decisions in a large amount of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?

2. What taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?

3. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?

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

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

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