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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 opens Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, with how many points of summary?
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

2. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?
(a) The people who hated Marcus Aurelius.
(b) The idealists and pantheists.
(c) The last Stoics and the Quakers.
(d) The early Christians.

3. What is the enormous mistake of the modern age, according to Chesterton?
(a) It does not believe strongly enough in progress.
(b) It does not look to God to answer its questions.
(c) It espouses a weak version of Christianity.
(d) It is changing the ideal rather than reality.

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

5. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?
(a) They do not require thinking.
(b) They are difficult to read and pronounce.
(c) They hinder understanding.
(d) Few people know what they mean.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chesterton's argument, why can the orthodox man believe in revolution?

3. In looking at Christianity and materialism, what coincidence stopped Chesterton in his tracks?

4. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?

5. How has western religion interacted with the idea of social organisms?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

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

4. 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?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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