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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?
(a) Men act within the body of citizens.
(b) Men act as individuals.
(c) The essential things are those they hold in common.
(d) The essential things are those they hold as individuals.

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

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

4. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?
(a) It is damaging to a man's mental capacity.
(b) It is suitable only for children.
(c) It distracts a man unnecessarily.
(d) It greatly benefits a man's mental capacity.

5. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) A crushed moth and a live one.
(b) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(c) A lonely woman and her lonely child.
(d) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.

6. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?
(a) The will is limiting to the man.
(b) The will defines a man's actions fully.
(c) The will frees a man.
(d) The will has boundaries only if it is not a free action.

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

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

9. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?
(a) He thinks it is just.
(b) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(c) He thinks it is immaterial.
(d) He thinks it is unjust.

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

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

12. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.
(b) Only a man can rule himself.
(c) The most important things must be done by individuals.
(d) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.

13. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?
(a) He is too logical in his arguments.
(b) He can only tell lies that he believes.
(c) He tells too many lies.
(d) He is not humorous enough.

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

15. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Mercy.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Righteous wrath.
(d) Sin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is the quintessence of will?

2. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?

3. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?

4. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?

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

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