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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. How does Chesterton characterize the approach of Hannibal to Rome?
(a) Riding on the glory of the gods.
(b) Like a hot knife slicing through the resistance.
(c) Like the reckoning for unholiness.
(d) Like a dark supernatural power.

2. What does Chesterton say is missing from the popular depiction of prehistory?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) Practicality.
(c) Humor.
(d) The family unit.

3. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?
(a) Nomads who do not evolve into a more civilized state.
(b) All of these.
(c) A society that has no evidence of being nomadic.
(d) Evidence to refute the commonly held notion of barbarism and civilization.

4. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) Comparative degrees.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Parallel plots.
(d) A story within a story.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?

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

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

5. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?

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