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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?
(a) Accept a personal God or an impersonal force.
(b) Deny God or accept God.
(c) Deny God or deny God's connection with man.
(d) Deny or accept man's ability to raise himself to the heavens.

2. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?
(a) Defending tradition in the face of unnecessary change.
(b) Constantly seeking the new idea.
(c) Being simultaneously surprised by and at home in the world.
(d) Showing, through every facet, that the Christian faith is true.

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

4. 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 would never read it.
(d) He wants to write a sequel.

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

6. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) The ocean.
(b) The moon.
(c) A mountain.
(d) The sun.

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

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

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

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

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

12. According to Chesterton, what is the only thing a poet desires?
(a) A world to stretch out in.
(b) A raft to float on.
(c) An understanding of the heavens.
(d) The ability to cross the infinite sea.

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

14. In moving through fairyland, what is the test of happiness, according to Chesterton?
(a) Gratitude.
(b) Surprise.
(c) Goodness.
(d) Reciprocity.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what effect does the moralists' attitude have on the cosmos?

2. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?

3. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?

4. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?

5. How does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?

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