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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. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?
2. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?
3. According to Chesterton, what is the problem with moving slowly toward justice?
4. Why, according to Christianity, can passions be free?
5. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?
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. What nearly persuaded Chesterton to become a Christian? Why was this thought frightening?
4. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
5. 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?
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. 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?
8. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?
9. In Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton name the most common type of trouble in the world? How does Christianity answer this trouble?
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
Why is solemnity more natural to man than laughter is? How is this related to Chesterton's claim that man is fundamentally joyful?
Essay Topic 2
According to Chesterton, what happens when men deny their inherent sinfulness? What are the philosophical and theological repercussions? How does this belief separate men from each other?
Essay Topic 3
What comfort does Chesterton find in the thought that God hides his mirth from man? How does that picture speak to God's greatness? How does it reinforce the idea that man is full of joy? Draw your arguments from Chesterton's statements about God's character which are given throughout Orthodoxy.
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