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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?
(a) With contempt.
(b) With admiration.
(c) With awe.
(d) With disbelief.
2. In Chesterton's explanation, how do religions of the world differ?
(a) They appear the same but teach different things.
(b) They teach the same things but have different God figures.
(c) They teach the same things but appear different.
(d) They treat the idea of sin differently.
3. As Chesterton contrasts miracles with progress, how does he define a miracle?
(a) God stepping into the flow of time.
(b) Evidence for supernatural occurrences.
(c) Swift control of a thing by the mind.
(d) Gradual control of a thing by the mind.
4. What was Chesterton's early progression through religious mindsets?
(a) Agnostic by ten, Christian by thirteen.
(b) Pagan by six, pantheist by eight.
(c) Pagan by twelve, agnostic by sixteen.
(d) Pantheist by twelve, Christian by fifteen.
5. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?
(a) To pray to God for the first time.
(b) To find fulfillment of his optimism.
(c) To hear he was in the right place.
(d) To hear he was not in the right place.
6. Chesterton chooses miracles as his first example regarding liberal thinking. What does he call this example?
(a) The easiest point to prove.
(b) The worst problem facing liberals.
(c) The easiest place to start.
(d) The most obvious choice.
7. What reason does Chesterton give for the idea that love craves personality?
(a) Love desire reciprocation.
(b) Love desires difference and division.
(c) Love desires a human object.
(d) Love desires human quirks, including problems.
8. 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 governed by mathematical principles.
(b) The world is too logical.
(c) The world is not logical at all.
(d) The world is almost logical but not quite.
9. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?
(a) To introduce the idea of Christian romance.
(b) To point out that liberal thinking is actually illiberal.
(c) To point out the paradoxes of Christianity.
(d) To question the sentimental value of Christianity.
10. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?
(a) Because it takes a life God had given.
(b) Because it cuts off the future.
(c) Because, in the eyes of one man, it kills the whole world.
(d) Because man is acting like God.
11. 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) God-given authority.
(d) The passage of time.
12. What is the enormous mistake of the modern age, according to Chesterton?
(a) It does not look to God to answer its questions.
(b) It is changing the ideal rather than reality.
(c) It does not believe strongly enough in progress.
(d) It espouses a weak version of Christianity.
13. Chesterton notes a startling difference between Christian and Buddhist art. What is this difference?
(a) Whether the colors are bright or dim.
(b) Whether the scene is set indoors or outdoors.
(c) Whether the people's eyes are open or shut.
(d) Whether the people are predominantly young or old.
14. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?
(a) It can only be proven in life-threatening circumstances.
(b) It has no meaning in everyday life.
(c) The person most wanting to live is the person willing to die.
(d) Only the meek person can show courage.
15. What moment does Chesterton point to as the single instant when God appeared to be atheist?
(a) When Christ was abandoned on the cross.
(b) When the first person, Abel, was murdered.
(c) When Eve fell into sin.
(d) When he had to send the Flood to wipe out most of humanity.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the single true charge that Chesterton found against Christianity?
2. What two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?
3. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?
4. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
5. According to Chesterton, what is the problem with moving slowly toward justice?
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