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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. How does Chesterton contrast pantheism and action?
2. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?
3. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?
4. As Chesterton contrasts miracles with progress, how does he define a miracle?
5. In Chesterton's example of a man's interaction with the tiger, what does evolution not tell the man?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Chesterton detest the religion of the Inner Light, of looking within oneself for God? What relation does this abhorrence have to Christianity?
2. 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?
3. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?
4. How does Chesterton explain pantheism's relation to wonder? What is the primary difference between pantheism and action?
5. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?
6. 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?
7. As Chesterton shows in Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what is Christianity's view of man? How can it hold to this argument?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Chesterton contrasts pantheism and action - how do they differ? What is the ultimate result of pantheism? How is this distinction related to the differences between Buddhism and Christianity regarding God?
Essay Topic 3
Christianity is orderly so that good things can run wild. As Chesterton asserts, is this true? If so, how is it true? Give examples from the text to support your argument.
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