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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the enormous mistake of the modern age, according to Chesterton?
(a) It espouses a weak version of Christianity.
(b) It does not believe strongly enough in progress.
(c) It does not look to God to answer its questions.
(d) It is changing the ideal rather than reality.

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

3. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?
(a) A person works harder to achieve this.
(b) A person looks for ethical support.
(c) A person ceases to believe in progress.
(d) A person becomes lazy.

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

5. As Chesterton contrasts miracles with progress, how does he define a miracle?
(a) Evidence for supernatural occurrences.
(b) Swift control of a thing by the mind.
(c) God stepping into the flow of time.
(d) Gradual control of a thing by the mind.

6. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?
(a) Man must look to the Old Testament for salvation.
(b) Man must look inward for salvation.
(c) Man's salvation will come only when Christ returns.
(d) Man must look outward for salvation.

7. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God is loving and created the world in his image.
(b) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(c) God is all-powerful and created the world.
(d) God can be found in the nature that he made.

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

9. 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) All religions are the same, and their church is the universal self.
(d) God is distant from the world and man must struggle on alone.

10. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?
(a) To hear he was not in the right place.
(b) To hear he was in the right place.
(c) To find fulfillment of his optimism.
(d) To pray to God for the first time.

11. In Chesterton's example of a man's interaction with the tiger, what does evolution not tell the man?
(a) How to imitate the tiger.
(b) How to be tender to the tiger.
(c) How to treat the tiger reasonably.
(d) How to empathize with the tiger.

12. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is his opinion of the fourth standard?
(a) It is the only sensible one.
(b) It is ridiculous.
(c) Its roots are in paganism.
(d) It is the only one fitting to Christianity.

13. 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) The passage of time.
(c) Persuasive thinking, similar to Nietzsche's.
(d) The progression of creatures through evolution.

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

15. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?
(a) In opposition, never coming close.
(b) Coming together to soften each other.
(c) In opposition, sharpening each other into greater fierceness.
(d) Coming close enough to affect each other.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What problem did Christianity solve which Paganism could not?

3. What two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?

4. What is Chesterton's stated purpose in Chapter VI, the Paradoxes of Christianity

5. Chesterton notes a startling difference between Christian and Buddhist art. What is this difference?

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