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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. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?
(a) Man must look outward for salvation.
(b) Man's salvation will come only when Christ returns.
(c) Man must look to the Old Testament for salvation.
(d) Man must look inward for salvation.

2. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?
(a) Deny or accept man's ability to raise himself to the heavens.
(b) Deny God or deny God's connection with man.
(c) Accept a personal God or an impersonal force.
(d) Deny God or accept God.

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

4. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?
(a) The earth.
(b) The heavens.
(c) God.
(d) Imagination.

5. What does Chesterton name as the chief pleasure?
(a) Love.
(b) Security.
(c) Surprise.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?

2. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?

3. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?

4. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?

5. Chesterton notes a startling difference between Christian and Buddhist art. What is this difference?

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