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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the book look in relation to Chesterton, according to the author himself?
(a) Altruistic.
(b) Egotistical.
(c) Self-sufficient.
(d) Paltry.

4. How does Chesterton describe a madman's reasoning?
(a) As a precise box.
(b) As a small, perfect circle.
(c) As a tangle of threads.
(d) As an infinite line.

5. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?
(a) Men act as individuals.
(b) The essential things are those they hold as individuals.
(c) The essential things are those they hold in common.
(d) Men act within the body of citizens.

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

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

8. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Apostles' Creed.
(b) The Nicene Creed.
(c) The Athanasian Creed.
(d) The Disciples' Creed.

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

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

11. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?
(a) He thinks fairy tales are useful only in the nursery.
(b) He is surer of fairy tales than of anything else in the world.
(c) He thinks fairy tales are interesting but not useful in reality.
(d) He thinks fairy tales are harmful to a child's mind.

12. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Dryden.
(b) Cowper.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Poe.

13. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(b) Returning home to the old land.
(c) Claiming the new land for your own.
(d) Settling the new land and making it familiar.

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

15. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?
(a) It is damaging to a man's mental capacity.
(b) It greatly benefits a man's mental capacity.
(c) It is suitable only for children.
(d) It distracts a man unnecessarily.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. According to Chesterton at the beginning of the first chapter, why did he write the book?

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