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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?
(a) Transubstantiation.
(b) Romance.
(c) Mystery.
(d) Incarnation.

2. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?
(a) Because he had to work through his religious beliefs.
(b) In response to a challenge.
(c) Because he had a well-crafted argument for Christianity.
(d) As a personal challenge to himself.

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

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

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

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

7. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Modern intelligence.
(b) Reason.
(c) Religion.
(d) Science.

8. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?
(a) The sailor will appear throughout the book.
(b) He is that sailor.
(c) To explain his picture of God.
(d) To illustrate his idea of wonder.

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

10. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?
(a) The Creeds and Hierarchies.
(b) Understanding the Skeptical Mind.
(c) Doubts of the Instrument.
(d) Skepticism from a Philosophical Viewpoint.

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

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

13. 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 sees purpose in every act.
(d) He does not notice insignificant things.

14. What is the "false theory of progress?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 196)
(a) Tracking man's progress poorly.
(b) Changing the standards rather than becoming better.
(c) Defining man's progress in terms of religion.
(d) Confusing people with too much data.

15. Why does Chesterton think glass is so often used in fairy tales?
(a) Glass is unusual for shoes and houses, and fitting to fairy tales.
(b) Glass easily portrays vivid emotions like anger.
(c) Glass is cheap and common.
(d) Glass, like happiness, is easily broken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?

2. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?

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

4. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?

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

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