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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: On the Man Called Christ, Chapter III: The Strangest Story in the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?
(a) Careful planning of the Gospels.
(b) A subtle and superior mind.
(c) The wisdom of those who assembled the Gospels.
(d) That Christ had formal schooling.

2. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?
(a) The objective of his mission.
(b) The act of greatest consequence.
(c) Preordained.
(d) Timeless.

3. According to Chesterton, how do civilization and barbarism interact?
(a) None of these.
(b) They have always existed side-by-side.
(c) They return in cycles.
(d) Civilization is a reaction to barbarism.

4. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?
(a) All of these.
(b) The exaltation of childhood.
(c) Subservience to an all powerful God.
(d) The mixing of religion and revolution.

5. What does Chesterton say is most present in the mind of man?
(a) Survival.
(b) His existence itself.
(c) Fear.
(d) Reproduction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton think of the theory that mankind is solely motivated by economic reasons of subsistence?

2. What does Chesterton say about the story of Good Friday?

3. What opinion does Chesterton hold of the concept "realpolitik," or the notion that men fight for material purposes?

4. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?

5. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?

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