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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton explain as his method for proving his argument?
(a) Presenting each tenet of a well-reasoned case for Christianity.
(b) Laying out arguments as he had thought of them, and then discovering they were already proven in Christianity.
(c) Laying out each argument as he refuted the skeptics.
(d) Laying out arguments with an acronym he came up with for his faith.

2. According to Chesterton, who is the only person to whom a modern realistic novel would not be boring?
(a) A baby.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A child of ten.
(d) A writer of fairytales.

3. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Dryden.
(b) Cowper.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Poe.

4. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?
(a) Skepticism from a Philosophical Viewpoint.
(b) Doubts of the Instrument.
(c) Understanding the Skeptical Mind.
(d) The Creeds and Hierarchies.

5. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?
(a) The will is limiting to the man.
(b) The will frees a man.
(c) The will defines a man's actions fully.
(d) The will has boundaries only if it is not a free action.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?

2. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?

3. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?

4. Why does Chesterton think glass is so often used in fairy tales?

5. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Humility is chiefly understood chiefly as a restraint on a man's arrogance and boasting. What is Chesterton's argument concerning humility? What example does he give to illustrate a humble view of the world?

2. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton give as the first two principles of democracy? How does he convey a sense of wonder even in these principles?

3. Why does Chesterton's second notion of fairyland entail praise?

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is Chesterton's opinion of the skeptic? Why does the skeptic not have the right to speak out against anything? Why, contrarily, is he always speaking out against things?

5. How does Chesterton explain the idea of the madman in life, in experience? How does this person live in the world?

6. Chesterton ends Chapter II, The Maniac, with a look at the true skeptic. What picture does this man present? How does he relate to the man at the beginning of the chapter, the man who believed in himself?

7. Chesterton assumes that he and his reader will share the common ground of agreeing that an interesting, active life is preferable to simple existence. Is this a fair starting point? Why or why not?

8. What is "the false theory of progress" (Chesterton 2000, pg 196)? What implications does it have for daily life?

9. In the example of the explorer who only discovers his own land, Chesterton says that his first emotion might be foolishness. This should not be the sole emotion, though. Why does Chesterton name foolishness as the first emotion and how might this fit the religious explorer?

10. Considering the fact that elf land is more rational than the scientific world is, why does Chesterton say that magic flourishes in elf land?

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