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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 oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?
2. Why, in the abstract, does Chesterton disapprove of long, complicated words?
3. Why does Chesterton say there is no equality or inequality in nature?
4. According to Chesterton, most things are allied with oppression. What is the one area where he sees a line past which oppression has no effect?
5. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Chesterton say is the most sensible ideal for nature? Is this a valid ideal? Why or why not?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
6. 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?
7. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?
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. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the differences between man and animal? Why does Chesterton assert these differences? How does his conclusion differ from those of the pagan thinkers?
Essay Topic 2
How does Christianity answer illogical questions in the world? Do you think these answers are valid? Why was Chesterton puzzled at these answers, and how did it lead him to question atheism?
Essay Topic 3
Why is the worship of the god within the worst religion, according to Chesterton? How does a worshiper of the god within regard the rest of the world? What is the endpoint of this religion?
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