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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 document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Apostles' Creed.
(b) The Athanasian Creed.
(c) The Nicene Creed.
(d) The Disciples' Creed.

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

3. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?
(a) The progression of creatures through evolution.
(b) Persuasive thinking, similar to Nietzsche's.
(c) God-given authority.
(d) The passage of time.

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

5. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?
(a) Explaining the intricacies of Christianity.
(b) Proving the Christianity is true.
(c) Proving from every angle that any one faith is true.
(d) Proving that materialism is an insufficient worldview.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Romance of Orthodoxy, what does Chesterton name as the cause for busyness in modern society?

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

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?

4. What does Chesterton name as the chief pleasure?

5. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?

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