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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 the enormous mistake of the modern age, according to Chesterton?
2. What is Chesterton's stated purpose in Chapter VI, the Paradoxes of Christianity
3. Why does Chesterton say that miracles are eminently desirable?
4. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?
5. What is the evil of the pessimist? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 226)
Short Essay Questions
1. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
2. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?
3. 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?
4. Why are liberals not free thinkers? What argument is made in Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy, about confusion within language?
5. What nearly persuaded Chesterton to become a Christian? Why was this thought frightening?
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. 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?
8. 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?
9. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
10. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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
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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