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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?
(a) When it is someone else's disease.
(b) When the disease is gone.
(c) When it brings conversion to the invalid.
(d) When it reveals the invalid's soul.

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?
(a) A test of happiness will always trump.
(b) Happiness cannot truly be tested.
(c) They both lead to the same end.
(d) The first is a true test but the second is not.

5. 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.

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

7. Why does Chesterton say that someone might be entertained by reading the book Orthodoxy?
(a) Chesterton tells stories rather than arguing a point.
(b) Chesterton wandered far to discover the truths he could have found in the nearby church.
(c) Chesterton has a good sense of humor.
(d) Chesterton's quest was fruitless from the beginning, but it took him a long time to realize it.

8. Why does Chesterton admire Joan of Arc?
(a) She provides courage to the French.
(b) She turned her fright into courage, when faced with battle.
(c) She is everything that he admired.
(d) She is an icon of Christianity and courage.

9. How does Chesterton end Chapter One?
(a) Beginning to lay the foundation of Christian-Judeo history.
(b) Claiming to prove every premise to his thesis.
(c) Exhorting the reader to examine his definition of "orthodoxy."
(d) Saying that he will write another book if challenged.

10. Using the standards of the moralists, why does Chesterton say that the universe cannot be called large?
(a) Because fairy tales explain it.
(b) Because God made it.
(c) Because there is nothing to compare it to.
(d) Because man can fully understand it.

11. 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) As a personal challenge to himself.
(c) Because he had a well-crafted argument for Christianity.
(d) In response to a challenge.

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

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

14. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).
(a) Its arms extend throughout the whole world.
(b) Its shocking history draws believers in.
(c) It does not represent the closed system of Eastern thought.
(d) Its power contradicts its history.

15. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?
(a) Reason.
(b) Religion.
(c) Unanswered questions.
(d) Poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

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

3. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

4. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?

5. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?

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