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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chesterton chooses miracles as his first example regarding liberal thinking. What does he call this example?
(a) The worst problem facing liberals.
(b) The most obvious choice.
(c) The easiest point to prove.
(d) The easiest place to start.

2. What is Chesterton's stated purpose in Chapter VI, the Paradoxes of Christianity
(a) To show that Christianity's irregularities are matched in its truths.
(b) To show that Christianity cannot account for irregularities.
(c) To show that Christianity has an answer for every problem.
(d) To show that Christianity is fully logical.

3. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because it relates to God.
(b) Because it is necessarily verbal.
(c) Because man can never prove the principle.
(d) Because man cannot truly understand creation.

4. In Chesterton's explanation, how do religions of the world differ?
(a) They teach the same things but appear different.
(b) They treat the idea of sin differently.
(c) They teach the same things but have different God figures.
(d) They appear the same but teach different things.

5. Why does Chesterton say that miracles are eminently desirable?
(a) Miracles give people a glimpse of the supernatural.
(b) Religious people have the opportunity to prove their beliefs.
(c) Man can begin to understand God.
(d) Man can triumph over nature's cruelty.

6. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?
(a) A person ceases to believe in progress.
(b) A person looks for ethical support.
(c) A person works harder to achieve this.
(d) A person becomes lazy.

7. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?
(a) Western religion says that the church provides the only stable society.
(b) Western religion says that no person should be alone.
(c) Western religion says that social organisms are harmful to faith.
(d) Western religion says that the family unit is the only important social organism.

8. What oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?
(a) Men have physical luxury but artistic poorness.
(b) Men have artistic luxury but physical poorness.
(c) Men ignore the physical life in pursuit of the spiritual.
(d) Men ignore the spiritual life in pursuit of the physical.

9. What does Chesterton call "the most difficult and interesting part of the mental process" that he reached? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 247)
(a) The problem of dealing with human passions.
(b) The fact that love and hate must burn equally strong.
(c) The problem of balance which is presented in the world.
(d) The fact that love and hate must soften each other.

10. Why did the serious changes in our political outlook occur at the beginning of the nineteenth century rather than at the end?
(a) At the beginning, men still believed fixedly in certain things.
(b) At the end, men were caught up in religious questions.
(c) At the end, men began to believe wholeheartedly in certain things.
(d) At the beginning, intellectualism was more highly encouraged.

11. What is the single true charge that Chesterton found against Christianity?
(a) Christianity is one religion.
(b) Christianity's claim to the Trinity is false.
(c) Christianity's view of salvation is unnecessarily complex.
(d) Christianity cannot be compatible with science.

12. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?
(a) Both passions are allowed free reign.
(b) He now has reason to claim brotherhood with Christ.
(c) He is exalted as God's creation and humbled as a sinner.
(d) He has hope for a heavenly future but fear for an earthly one.

13. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?
(a) He formulated responses to their arguments.
(b) He stopped believing the skeptics and evolutionists.
(c) He was not convinced by their arguments.
(d) Traces of Christianity were found in the writings.

14. According to Chesterton, most things are allied with oppression. What is the one area where he sees a line past which oppression has no effect?
(a) Politics.
(b) Orthodoxy.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

15. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(b) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.
(c) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.
(d) Those who take women for granted.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?

2. Chesterton notes a startling difference between Christian and Buddhist art. What is this difference?

3. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?

4. At the end of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what conclusion does Chesterton reach about orthodoxy?

5. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?

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