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

2. What taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?
(a) His heart cannot soften the world.
(b) His salvation is not sufficient for all of humanity.
(c) His gaze makes men's hearts quiver in fear.
(d) His breath turns the world gray.

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

4. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because it relates to God.
(b) Because man cannot truly understand creation.
(c) Because man can never prove the principle.
(d) Because it is necessarily verbal.

5. In general, what does Chesterton say is a liberal clergyman's attitude toward miracles?
(a) They existed only in Biblical times.
(b) They do not exist.
(c) Only particular people can perform miracles.
(d) They exist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?

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

4. Why does Chesterton say that miracles are eminently desirable?

5. What is the single true charge that Chesterton found against Christianity?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What does Chesterton say is the most sensible ideal for nature? Is this a valid ideal? Why or why not?

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

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

5. 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?

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 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?

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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