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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. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?
(a) It can only be proven in life-threatening circumstances.
(b) It has no meaning in everyday life.
(c) Only the meek person can show courage.
(d) The person most wanting to live is the person willing to die.

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

3. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?
(a) Because man is acting like God.
(b) Because it cuts off the future.
(c) Because it takes a life God had given.
(d) Because, in the eyes of one man, it kills the whole world.

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

5. What reason does Chesterton give for the idea that love craves personality?
(a) Love desires human quirks, including problems.
(b) Love desires difference and division.
(c) Love desires a human object.
(d) Love desire reciprocation.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Romance of Orthodoxy, what does Chesterton name as the cause for busyness in modern society?

2. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?

3. In general, what does Chesterton say is a liberal clergyman's attitude toward miracles?

4. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Near the beginning of Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, Chesterton makes an argument concerning superiority. What is this argument? Does he satisfy the question fully?

3. What argument does Chesterton make for keeping joy and anger separate? What is the danger in letting them meld together to produce some form of contentment?

4. Why is it better to be a progressive, according to Chesterton's understanding of the term? Why should man rebel against the new rather than against the old?

5. What nearly persuaded Chesterton to become a Christian? Why was this thought frightening?

6. What is the first time that Chesterton felt he had stumbled onto a path that was familiar to some? How did Christianity mirror his own thoughts?

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

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

9. 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?

10. As Chesterton argues, why does love seek individuality and personality? Is this true only in relation to man or also in relation to God?

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