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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 two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?
(a) Living a fairytale or living in hell.
(b) Overpopulation or extermination of humanity.
(c) Christianity or atheism.
(d) Sitting absolutely still or smashing the world for fun.
2. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because it is necessarily verbal.
(b) Because man cannot truly understand creation.
(c) Because it relates to God.
(d) Because man can never prove the principle.
3. In Chesterton's thoughts, Christianity came to assert passionately what idea?
(a) Man must look to the Old Testament for salvation.
(b) Man's salvation will come only when Christ returns.
(c) Man must look outward for salvation.
(d) Man must look inward for salvation.
4. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?
(a) Attacks on Christianity were largely valid.
(b) Christianity must be very wrong or absolutely right.
(c) Christianity might actually be true.
(d) Christianity was full of logical problems.
5. What moment does Chesterton point to as the single instant when God appeared to be atheist?
(a) When the first person, Abel, was murdered.
(b) When Christ was abandoned on the cross.
(c) When Eve fell into sin.
(d) When he had to send the Flood to wipe out most of humanity.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?
2. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?
3. At the beginning of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton call the most common problem with the world?
4. What is the thesis of Mrs. Besant's book?
5. Chesterton opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Eastern and Western religions differ in their understanding of seclusion in worship, according to Chesterton? How does this affect their sense of community?
2. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
6. Why are liberals not free thinkers? What argument is made in Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy, about confusion within language?
7. What does Chesterton say is the most sensible ideal for nature? Is this a valid ideal? Why or why not?
8. 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?
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. 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?
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