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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What two extremes does Chesterton foresee in man's future?
2. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?
3. What is Chesterton's first criterion for progress?
4. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?
5. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why are liberals not free thinkers? What argument is made in Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy, about confusion within language?
3. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
4. 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?
5. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?
6. What nearly persuaded Chesterton to become a Christian? Why was this thought frightening?
7. 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?
8. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
9. 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?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
If life is to be a fairy tale, there must be a balance between fear and wonder, as Chesterton argues. Why is this balance important? What happens if there is a large amount of one over the other?
Essay Topic 2
In Chesterton's estimation, men gained their sense of morality by protecting their religion. How is this true? How has it been played out in history?
Essay Topic 3
Why does God exult in what appears to humans as monotony? Does this lead to a sense of infancy or dullness misunderstood? What is Chesterton's reaction to this perception of God?
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