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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 did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?
(a) He was not convinced by their arguments.
(b) Traces of Christianity were found in the writings.
(c) He formulated responses to their arguments.
(d) He stopped believing the skeptics and evolutionists.

2. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?
(a) When it reveals the invalid's soul.
(b) When it brings conversion to the invalid.
(c) When the disease is gone.
(d) When it is someone else's disease.

3. How did the pagan balance joy and sorrow, if at all?
(a) He had sorrow on earth but increasing joy as he approached heaven.
(b) He was overcome with sorrow and felt joy only in infancy.
(c) He had joy on earth but became sorrowful as he approached heaven.
(d) He could not balance them in any meaningful way.

4. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?
(a) That it is particular.
(b) That it has knowable consequences.
(c) That it is individual.
(d) That it is an action of freedom.

5. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Cowper.
(c) Dryden.
(d) Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what conclusion does Chesterton reach about orthodoxy?

2. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

3. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

4. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?

5. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

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