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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 is Pimlico?
2. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
3. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?
4. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?
5. Why does Christianity mark the graves of the martyr and the suicide?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
4. 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?
5. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?
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. How does Chesterton explain pantheism's relation to wonder? What is the primary difference between pantheism and action?
8. As Chesterton argues, why does love seek individuality and personality? Is this true only in relation to man or also in relation to God?
9. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?
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 understanding, what does it mean for God when a miracle occurs? What does a miracle mean for both the materialist and the believer? What is your understanding of a miracle, and how does it relate to Chesterton's ideas?
Essay Topic 2
Chesterton wants only a Utopia that allows him to restrict himself, to bind his own liberties. What does he mean by this? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What is your idea of Utopia, and does it coincide at any point with Chesterton's idea?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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