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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 definition does Chesterton find BEST for optimist and pessimist?
2. What reason does Chesterton give for the idea that love craves personality?
3. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is his opinion of the fourth standard?
4. In general, what does Chesterton say is a liberal clergyman's attitude toward miracles?
5. What people, in their interactions with women, does Chesterton call stupid?
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. 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?
3. 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?
4. How does Chesterton explain pantheism's relation to wonder? What is the primary difference between pantheism and action?
5. 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?
6. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
7. How do Eastern and Western religions differ in their understanding of seclusion in worship, according to Chesterton? How does this affect their sense of community?
8. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?
9. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?
10. What does Chesterton say is the most sensible ideal for nature? Is this a valid ideal? Why or why not?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"For the orthodox there can always be a revolution, for a revolution is restoration." (Chesterton 2000, pg. 264) How is this true? How does this suit or shatter the common understanding of revolution?
Essay Topic 2
Chesterton contrasts pantheism and action - how do they differ? What is the ultimate result of pantheism? How is this distinction related to the differences between Buddhism and Christianity regarding God?
Essay Topic 3
Chesterton says that people desire both the familiar and the unfamiliar. Is this true? How might they relate? Does one drive the other? Support your thesis with his arguments concerning this desire.
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