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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 taunt does Swinburne hurl about the Galilean, Christ?
3. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?
4. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?
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. 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?
3. 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?
4. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
5. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
6. What does Chesterton say is the most sensible ideal for nature? Is this a valid ideal? Why or why not?
7. What nearly persuaded Chesterton to become a Christian? Why was this thought frightening?
8. 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?
9. Near the beginning of Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, Chesterton makes an argument concerning superiority. What is this argument? Does he satisfy the question fully?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compile the examples Chesterton gives from Bernard Shaw's writings and speeches. What kind of thinker is Shaw? How does he differ from Chesterton? How is he similar?
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
Why does Chesterton say that progress must have a fixed goal? What happens if the goal changes? How is this question related to the ideas of reform versus evolution?
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