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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?
(a) A composite of happiness.
(b) A variety of racial backgrounds.
(c) A collection of cultures.
(d) A devotion to Christianity.

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

4. 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) Orthodoxy.
(b) Religion.
(c) Love.
(d) Politics.

5. How does Chesterton contrast pantheism and action?
(a) Pantheism is completely inactive and therefore opposes action.
(b) Pantheism entails all possibilities; action is exclusive in its choice.
(c) Pantheism looks only at the world; action looks also at the supernatural.
(d) Pantheism says one thing is as good as another; action chooses one thing as best.

6. What does Chesterton see as the purpose of the boundaries established by Christianity?
(a) To deny earthly happiness to believers.
(b) To expel unhappy and fierce things.
(c) To let good things run wild.
(d) To establish the power of the church.

7. In Chesterton's example of a man's interaction with the tiger, what does evolution not tell the man?
(a) How to empathize with the tiger.
(b) How to treat the tiger reasonably.
(c) How to imitate the tiger.
(d) How to be tender to the tiger.

8. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)
(a) The dragon had been conquered.
(b) The army had fled before the light of his revelation.
(c) The land was lit up even back to his childhood.
(d) Fairyland was no longer important to his thinking.

9. 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 passage of time.
(c) God-given authority.
(d) The progression of creatures through evolution.

10. What taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?
(a) His gaze makes men's hearts quiver in fear.
(b) His breath turns the world gray.
(c) His heart cannot soften the world.
(d) His salvation is not sufficient for all of humanity.

11. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Romance of Orthodoxy, what does Chesterton name as the cause for busyness in modern society?
(a) Fast-paced life.
(b) Bustle.
(c) Stress.
(d) Laziness.

12. What is Pimlico?
(a) A dreary American town.
(b) A dreary English town.
(c) An English newspaper.
(d) Chesterton's favorite dog.

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

14. What two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?
(a) Christianity or atheism.
(b) Overpopulation or extermination of humanity.
(c) Living a fairytale or living in hell.
(d) Sitting absolutely still or smashing the world for fun.

15. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?
(a) Man's desire for a blue world is only illusory.
(b) If a man always works toward a blue world, he will eventually succeed.
(c) Man must not be sidetracked onto changing every aspect of his world.
(d) Man can begin with the desire for a blue world but should not end there.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what is the problem with moving slowly toward justice?

2. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is his opinion of the fourth standard?

3. In general, what does Chesterton say is a liberal clergyman's attitude toward miracles?

4. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?

5. Why does Chesterton say that miracles are eminently desirable?

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