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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chesterton, who is the only person to whom a modern realistic novel would not be boring?
(a) A writer of fairytales.
(b) A baby.
(c) A scientist.
(d) A child of ten.

2. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) It deals well with evil.
(b) It is full of wasted virtues.
(c) It has little conception of vice.
(d) Its ethics are better than they used to be.

3. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?
(a) Today's skeptic is a true revolutionary.
(b) Today's skeptic cannot even define what he trusts.
(c) Today's skeptic is not nearly so violent.
(d) Today's skeptic is not a Jacobin.

4. Who is Mr. Street?
(a) A character in one of Chesterton's tales.
(b) A journalist who first reviewed the book Orthodoxy.
(c) The man most affected by the book.
(d) A philosopher who probably opposes Chesterton.

5. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) He wrote it so he could win a bet.
(b) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(c) He went looking for something that is already known.
(d) He does not take its content seriously.

6. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?
(a) He learns to rebut every traditionalist.
(b) He begins to distrust everything.
(c) He loses his right to speak out against anything.
(d) He becomes excellent at tearing down established ways of thinking.

7. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?
(a) Modern satire takes different forms than literature.
(b) Writers are not taught to appreciate satire.
(c) Satire is too violent for the modern mind.
(d) There is nothing to be fierce about.

8. Who is Mr. Blatchford?
(a) A pagan.
(b) An early Christian.
(c) A humanitarian.
(d) A martyr.

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

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

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

12. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)
(a) "For one awful instant we remember that we forget."
(b) "All the fire of the fairy tales is derived from this."
(c) "There is no connection, except that one has seen them together."
(d) "For certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten."

13. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?
(a) He searches for extraordinary truths.
(b) He finds great, unsearchable truths.
(c) He loses hope that truth exists.
(d) He loses hope that he, a mortal, can ever find the truth.

14. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are not truly Christian.
(b) They are separate from the Bible.
(c) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(d) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

3. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

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

5. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?

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