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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. 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 governed by mathematical principles.
(c) The world is too logical.
(d) The world is not logical at all.

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

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

6. What moment does Chesterton point to as the single instant when God appeared to be atheist?
(a) When the first person, Abel, was murdered.
(b) When he had to send the Flood to wipe out most of humanity.
(c) When Eve fell into sin.
(d) When Christ was abandoned on the cross.

7. What is the thesis of Mrs. Besant's book?
(a) Man's largest desire is unity with all of humanity.
(b) Each religion has the same basic tenets but a different God figure.
(c) God is distant from the world and man must struggle on alone.
(d) All religions are the same, and their church is the universal self.

8. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?
(a) If everything he knows supports that belief.
(b) If he must defend it to people who oppose him.
(c) If he has no evidence for his belief other than his desire to believe.
(d) If he has only scattered evidence for that belief.

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

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

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

12. What is Chesterton's first criterion for progress?
(a) It must be accessible to everyone.
(b) It must be attainable.
(c) It must be unchanging.
(d) It must mesh with tradition.

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

14. 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 hinder understanding.
(d) They do not require thinking.

15. How does the Christian idea of a transcendent God manifest itself in a frightening way?
(a) God is so different from man that the two cannot relate.
(b) God sometimes disappears and must be sought.
(c) God sometimes disappears and cannot be found again.
(d) God is so far above man that he can never be reached.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say there is no equality or inequality in nature?

2. In Chesterton's example, why is it important for Gradgrind to give his employees skeptical literature?

3. At the end of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what conclusion does Chesterton reach about orthodoxy?

4. Why, according to Christianity, can passions be free?

5. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?

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