Orthodoxy Test | Final Test - Easy

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Orthodoxy Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

4. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?
(a) Revolution coincides with orthodoxy.
(b) Revolution means restoration.
(c) Orthodoxy manifests itself as revolution.
(d) It's a trick question - he cannot.

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

6. 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.

7. In general, what does Chesterton say is a liberal clergyman's attitude toward miracles?
(a) They exist.
(b) They existed only in Biblical times.
(c) They do not exist.
(d) Only particular people can perform miracles.

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

9. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
(a) That "he chastises gods and men."
(b) That "he honestly angers honest men."
(c) That "he does not love what he chastises."
(d) That "he will defend the indefensible."

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

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

12. In looking at Christianity and materialism, what coincidence stopped Chesterton in his tracks?
(a) That the materialists could not agree on a definition of their worldview.
(b) That the scientists directly contradicted their theories of evolution.
(c) That Christianity was accused of being both too holy and too inane.
(d) That Christianity was accused of being both too optimistic and too pessimistic.

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

14. 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) Bustle.
(c) Fast-paced life.
(d) Stress.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?

2. How does Chesterton contrast pantheism and action?

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

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

5. What does Chesterton define as the problem with pessimists?

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