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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. 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 too logical.
(b) The world is not logical at all.
(c) The world is governed by mathematical principles.
(d) The world is almost logical but not quite.

2. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?
(a) A variety of racial backgrounds.
(b) A collection of cultures.
(c) A composite of happiness.
(d) A devotion to Christianity.

3. Why did the serious changes in our political outlook occur at the beginning of the nineteenth century rather than at the end?
(a) At the end, men were caught up in religious questions.
(b) At the beginning, intellectualism was more highly encouraged.
(c) At the end, men began to believe wholeheartedly in certain things.
(d) At the beginning, men still believed fixedly in certain things.

4. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?
(a) Revolution means restoration.
(b) Orthodoxy manifests itself as revolution.
(c) Revolution coincides with orthodoxy.
(d) It's a trick question - he cannot.

5. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?
(a) He is exalted as God's creation and humbled as a sinner.
(b) He has hope for a heavenly future but fear for an earthly one.
(c) He now has reason to claim brotherhood with Christ.
(d) Both passions are allowed free reign.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)

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

3. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)

4. What oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?

5. According to Chesterton, what is the problem with moving slowly toward justice?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. How does Chesterton explain pantheism's relation to wonder? What is the primary difference between pantheism and action?

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

7. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?

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

9. 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?

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

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