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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. "[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 depends on the fairy tale.
(b) He thinks it is immaterial.
(c) He thinks it is just.
(d) He thinks it is unjust.

4. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?
(a) Today's skeptic is not a Jacobin.
(b) Today's skeptic cannot even define what he trusts.
(c) Today's skeptic is not nearly so violent.
(d) Today's skeptic is a true revolutionary.

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

6. What does Chesterton assert about W. B. Yeats?
(a) He understands fairy tales better than any other poet.
(b) He is too stupid to understand fairy tales.
(c) He is close to understanding fairy tales but cannot write them well.
(d) His Irish heritage opens his eyes to the wonders of fairyland.

7. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Casting out a demon.
(b) Arguing with a learned philosopher.
(c) Tilting the earth on its axis.
(d) Shifting the foundations of the sea.

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

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

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

11. What does Chesterton name as the chief pleasure?
(a) Security.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Surprise.

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

13. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
(a) He found that he no longer believed it.
(b) He found that it was orthodoxy.
(c) He found that the heresy was untenable.
(d) He found that the heresy was paganism.

14. What words does Chesterton prefer when referring to nature?
(a) Law, necessity, order.
(b) Charm, spell, enchantment.
(c) Necessity, order, tendency.
(d) Law, theory, science.

15. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?
(a) They achieve far more than other men do.
(b) They end up in insane asylums.
(c) They are never properly appreciated.
(d) They have difficulty maintaining that belief.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?

2. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?

3. As the determinist is confronted with the problem of sin, what does Chesterton say that he believes in?

4. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?

5. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?

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