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

2. How does the Christian idea of a transcendent God manifest itself in a frightening way?
(a) God sometimes disappears and cannot be found again.
(b) God sometimes disappears and must be sought.
(c) God is so far above man that he can never be reached.
(d) God is so different from man that the two cannot relate.

3. What is Pimlico?
(a) A dreary English town.
(b) Chesterton's favorite dog.
(c) An English newspaper.
(d) A dreary American town.

4. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?
(a) As a mother.
(b) As a laughing little sister.
(c) As a goddess.
(d) As a step-mother.

5. At the beginning of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton call the most common problem with the world?
(a) The world is governed by mathematical principles.
(b) The world is almost logical but not quite.
(c) The world is not logical at all.
(d) The world is too logical.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?

2. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?

3. What moment does Chesterton point to as the single instant when God appeared to be atheist?

4. In Chesterton's example of a man's interaction with the tiger, what does evolution not tell the man?

5. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are liberals not free thinkers? What argument is made in Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy, about confusion within language?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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. As Chesterton shows in Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what is Christianity's view of man? How can it hold to this argument?

7. Why does Chesterton detest the religion of the Inner Light, of looking within oneself for God? What relation does this abhorrence have to Christianity?

8. 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?

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

10. Christianity holds that any man who depends on a luxurious life is fallen and corrupt. What effect does this belief have on the believer, according to Chesterton?

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