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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. As Chesterton contrasts miracles with progress, how does he define a miracle?
(a) Evidence for supernatural occurrences.
(b) Gradual control of a thing by the mind.
(c) Swift control of a thing by the mind.
(d) God stepping into the flow of time.

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

4. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?
(a) Revolution means restoration.
(b) Orthodoxy manifests itself as revolution.
(c) Revolution coincides with orthodoxy.
(d) It's a trick question - he cannot.

5. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?
(a) They are cosmic anti-patriots.
(b) They impede progress.
(c) They are opposed to religious beliefs in any form.
(d) They are opposed to optimists.

6. Why does Christianity mark the graves of the martyr and the suicide?
(a) To show the horror of the suicide.
(b) To praise the martyr by his opposite.
(c) To show him who died for the sake of life and he who died for the sake of death.
(d) To remember both with sadness.

7. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God is all-powerful and created the world.
(b) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(c) God is loving and created the world in his image.
(d) God can be found in the nature that he made.

8. Why are people who admire Christianity, but do not believe it, uncomfortable?
(a) Christianity is elaborately right.
(b) Christianity has only a few answers for their problems.
(c) Christianity has philosophical answers but not realistic answers.
(d) Christianity was valid in the past but may not continue to be valid.

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

10. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?
(a) Persuasive thinking, similar to Nietzsche's.
(b) The progression of creatures through evolution.
(c) The passage of time.
(d) God-given authority.

11. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?
(a) With awe.
(b) With admiration.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With disbelief.

12. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?
(a) He didn't want to acknowledge Christ's divinity.
(b) His liberal Christianity did not allow it.
(c) His scientific mind told him it was impossible.
(d) His materialism did not allow it.

13. 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.

14. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?
(a) Nature becomes twisted.
(b) Nature becomes pure as it offers salvation.
(c) Man is lifted up to God.
(d) Man can only then begin to search for God.

15. 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 end, men were caught up in religious questions.
(b) At the beginning, men still believed fixedly in certain things.
(c) At the end, men began to believe wholeheartedly in certain things.
(d) At the beginning, intellectualism was more highly encouraged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?

2. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?

3. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?

4. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Romance of Orthodoxy, what does Chesterton name as the cause for busyness in modern society?

5. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?

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