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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 is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
(a) It must be a utopia.
(b) It must be earthly.
(c) It must be heavenly.
(d) It must be like Eden.

2. In Chesterton's explanation, how do religions of the world differ?
(a) They teach the same things but appear different.
(b) They teach the same things but have different God figures.
(c) They treat the idea of sin differently.
(d) They appear the same but teach different things.

3. 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) Its roots are in paganism.
(b) It is the only sensible one.
(c) It is ridiculous.
(d) It is the only one fitting to Christianity.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?

3. Chesterton chooses miracles as his first example regarding liberal thinking. What does he call this example?

4. Why are people who admire Christianity, but do not believe it, uncomfortable?

5. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?

Short Essay Questions

1. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?

2. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?

3. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?

4. Why, according to Chesterton, do modern thinkers find it advantageous to modernity to change the vision of heaven constantly? What effect does this have on man's mind?

5. In Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton name the most common type of trouble in the world? How does Christianity answer this trouble?

6. The Church holds to some strict doctrines regarding man and his actions. Why is she so strict? Is it possible for her to swerve in her beliefs?

7. At the end of Chapter V, The Flag of the World, what transformation does Chesterton describe? How did the transformation address his question of optimism and pessimism?

8. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?

9. Chapter V, The Flag of the World, begins with a young girl's idea that "An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes, and a pessimist is a man who looks after your feet" (Chesterton 2000, pg 223). How does Chesterton explain this?

10. What is the common view of Christianity and Buddhism, according to Chesterton? How are they similar and dissimilar? What is Chesterton's opinion of their differences?

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