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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. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because man can never prove the principle.
(b) Because it relates to God.
(c) Because it is necessarily verbal.
(d) Because man cannot truly understand creation.

2. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) An understanding of the heavens.
(b) A raft to float on.
(c) The ability to cross the infinite sea.
(d) A world to stretch out in.

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

4. How does Chesterton contrast pantheism and action?
(a) Pantheism is completely inactive and therefore opposes action.
(b) Pantheism entails all possibilities; action is exclusive in its choice.
(c) Pantheism looks only at the world; action looks also at the supernatural.
(d) Pantheism says one thing is as good as another; action chooses one thing as best.

5. What reason does Chesterton give for the idea that love craves personality?
(a) Love desires human quirks, including problems.
(b) Love desires difference and division.
(c) Love desires a human object.
(d) Love desire reciprocation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?

3. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?

4. According to Chesterton, most things are allied with oppression. What is the one area where he sees a line past which oppression has no effect?

5. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?

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