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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?
(a) By safe-guarding their religion.
(b) By safe-guarding their culture.
(c) By teaching tradition to their children.
(d) By consciously working out a moral code.

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

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

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

5. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?
(a) Attacks on Christianity were largely valid.
(b) Christianity was full of logical problems.
(c) Christianity must be very wrong or absolutely right.
(d) Christianity might actually be true.

6. 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) Politics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Love.

7. What problem did Christianity solve which Paganism could not?
(a) A personal God.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Balance.
(d) Salvation.

8. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?
(a) Few people know what they mean.
(b) They are difficult to read and pronounce.
(c) They do not require thinking.
(d) They hinder understanding.

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

10. 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.

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

12. What was Chesterton's early progression through religious mindsets?
(a) Pagan by six, pantheist by eight.
(b) Pagan by twelve, agnostic by sixteen.
(c) Pantheist by twelve, Christian by fifteen.
(d) Agnostic by ten, Christian by thirteen.

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

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

15. 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 dealing with human passions.
(d) The problem of balance which is presented in the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?

2. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?

3. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?

4. How does the Christian idea of a transcendent God manifest itself in a frightening way?

5. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?

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