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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?
(a) Four.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

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

3. 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) Love.
(c) Religion.
(d) Orthodoxy.

4. At the beginning of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton call the most common problem with the world?
(a) The world is almost logical but not quite.
(b) The world is not logical at all.
(c) The world is governed by mathematical principles.
(d) The world is too logical.

5. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?
(a) The religion of the Christian God.
(b) The religion that worships the god inside.
(c) The religion that debases a man.
(d) The religion that worships multiple gods.

6. Chesterton notes a startling difference between Christian and Buddhist art. What is this difference?
(a) Whether the people are predominantly young or old.
(b) Whether the people's eyes are open or shut.
(c) Whether the colors are bright or dim.
(d) Whether the scene is set indoors or outdoors.

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

8. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?
(a) Because man is acting like God.
(b) Because, in the eyes of one man, it kills the whole world.
(c) Because it cuts off the future.
(d) Because it takes a life God had given.

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

10. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
(a) It must be a utopia.
(b) It must be earthly.
(c) It must be heavenly.
(d) It must be like Eden.

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

12. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?
(a) The last Stoics and the Quakers.
(b) The people who hated Marcus Aurelius.
(c) The early Christians.
(d) The idealists and pantheists.

13. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?
(a) Christianity could not answer any of his questions.
(b) Christianity arrived there first.
(c) Buddhism shed some light on his questions.
(d) Christianity could lead him to the answers.

14. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?
(a) To question the sentimental value of Christianity.
(b) To point out the paradoxes of Christianity.
(c) To point out that liberal thinking is actually illiberal.
(d) To introduce the idea of Christian romance.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?

3. In Chesterton's explanation, how do religions of the world differ?

4. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?

5. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?

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