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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. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is his opinion of the fourth standard?
(a) It is ridiculous.
(b) Its roots are in paganism.
(c) It is the only sensible one.
(d) It is the only one fitting to Christianity.

2. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
(a) Those who think women's loyalty stems from blindness to a man's fault.
(b) Those who abuse a woman's loyalty by constantly testing it.
(c) Those who think women's loyalty is a fault.
(d) Those who take women for granted.

3. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?
(a) Christianity was full of logical problems.
(b) Christianity must be very wrong or absolutely right.
(c) Christianity might actually be true.
(d) Attacks on Christianity were largely valid.

4. Chesterton chooses miracles as his first example regarding liberal thinking. What does he call this example?
(a) The worst problem facing liberals.
(b) The easiest place to start.
(c) The most obvious choice.
(d) The easiest point to prove.

5. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?
(a) A person becomes lazy.
(b) A person looks for ethical support.
(c) A person works harder to achieve this.
(d) A person ceases to believe in progress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?

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

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

5. What definition does Chesterton find BEST for optimist and pessimist?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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