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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(b) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(c) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.
(d) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.

2. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?
(a) The hero has no precedent for resolution to the conflict.
(b) The hero is boring and not surprised by the adventures.
(c) The hero is now abnormal and his adventures are not surprising.
(d) There is no original model for a hero.

3. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He says categories do not exist.
(b) He subdivides things into tiny categories.
(c) He perceives twelve categories.
(d) He notes five categories.

4. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Being isolated.
(b) Not feeling.
(c) Not thinking.
(d) Shock therapy.

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

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

7. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?
(a) Constantly seeking the new idea.
(b) Showing, through every facet, that the Christian faith is true.
(c) Being simultaneously surprised by and at home in the world.
(d) Defending tradition in the face of unnecessary change.

8. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?
(a) Materialism has a smaller view of man.
(b) Materialism has no belief in an afterlife.
(c) Materialism cannot allow even a hint of the supernatural or strange.
(d) Christianity encompasses all of Judeo-Christian tradition.

9. What is the problem with taking change as the ideal in a man's life, according to Chesterton?
(a) Change cannot progress.
(b) Change, in itself, is narrow and tedious.
(c) A man prefers monotony.
(d) The notion itself must be able to change, in order to suit the age.

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

11. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?
(a) He is surer of fairy tales than of anything else in the world.
(b) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.
(c) He thinks fairy tales are harmful to a child's mind.
(d) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.

12. 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.

13. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?
(a) He will never find the answers.
(b) No one else can think for him.
(c) There are no answers to be found.
(d) He has no right to think for himself.

14. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) A world to stretch out in.
(b) A raft to float on.
(c) An understanding of the heavens.
(d) The ability to cross the infinite sea.

15. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?
(a) Lunatics.
(b) Priests.
(c) Atheists.
(d) Believers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

2. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

3. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

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

5. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?

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