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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. In Chesterton's example of a man's interaction with the tiger, what does evolution not tell the man?
(a) How to empathize with the tiger.
(b) How to treat the tiger reasonably.
(c) How to be tender to the tiger.
(d) How to imitate the tiger.

2. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?
(a) To find fulfillment of his optimism.
(b) To hear he was not in the right place.
(c) To pray to God for the first time.
(d) To hear he was in the right place.

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

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

5. According to Chesterton, what mindset, paralleling patriotism, leads to reform?
(a) Irrational pessimism.
(b) Rational optimism.
(c) Rational pessimism.
(d) Irrational optimism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?

2. What is Chesterton's first criterion for progress?

3. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?

4. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is his opinion of the fourth standard?

5. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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. 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?

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