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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?
(a) He did not really find or invent it.
(b) He is too modest to claim his own work.
(c) It belongs to God and humanity.
(d) It is a way of living rather than a philosophy.

2. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?
(a) He cannot differentiate between careless and important acts.
(b) His world is comprised of careless acts.
(c) He does not notice insignificant things.
(d) He sees purpose in every act.

3. What is the title of Chapter I?
(a) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(b) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.
(c) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(d) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.

4. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As a tangle of threads.
(c) As an infinite line.
(d) As a small, perfect circle.

5. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?
(a) An illogical argument.
(b) Pure sophistry.
(c) The creativity of desperation.
(d) A blatant lie.

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

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

8. What does Chesterton assert as a necessity for the human mind?
(a) Belief in the Christian God.
(b) Some type of religious grounding.
(c) Belief in the power of progress.
(d) Belief in objective truth.

9. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?
(a) Changing the environment.
(b) Enforcing the power of free will.
(c) Enforcing the necessity of certain acts.
(d) Asserting that the world is a closed system.

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

11. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?
(a) They achieve far more than other men do.
(b) They end up in insane asylums.
(c) They are never properly appreciated.
(d) They have difficulty maintaining that belief.

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

13. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?
(a) A man must be small to appreciate their size.
(b) They speak to man's sense of accomplishment.
(c) They connect a man directly to God, who is greater.
(d) They remind man how far he still must go.

14. What words does Chesterton prefer when referring to nature?
(a) Charm, spell, enchantment.
(b) Law, theory, science.
(c) Necessity, order, tendency.
(d) Law, necessity, order.

15. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.
(b) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.
(c) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.
(d) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?

2. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?

3. What does Chesterton name as the second principle of democracy?

4. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?

5. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?

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