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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 harmful to a child's mind.
(c) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.
(d) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?
(a) It is not perfect but he's happy.
(b) He is very proud of it.
(c) He wants to write a sequel.
(d) He would never read it.

8. What does Chesterton name as the second principle of democracy?
(a) Men's actions have meaning only by their own standards.
(b) Political instinct is one thing men hold in common.
(c) Protection of private property is one thing men hold in common.
(d) Men's actions have meaning only when they relate to the cultural standards.

9. What did Chesterton discover about the truths he found in religious thought?
(a) They were not his.
(b) They were not fully truth.
(c) They contradicted each other.
(d) They could not be lived out.

10. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?
(a) It also destroys his sense of hope.
(b) It also destroys his humanity.
(c) It cripples his free will.
(d) It acts as a liberating force.

11. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?
(a) Confidence.
(b) Helplessness.
(c) Fanciful thinking.
(d) Brashness.

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

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

14. What, in Chesterton's example, might God have an eternal appetite for?
(a) Theatrics.
(b) Fairytales.
(c) Repetition.
(d) Infancy.

15. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) Where Christians get the authority for the creed.
(b) The Biblical authority for the creed.
(c) The history behind the creed.
(d) The practical outworking of the creed.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

2. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?

3. What is the title of Chapter I?

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?

5. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?

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