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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. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?
(a) All of these.
(b) The intuitiveness.
(c) The suggestion that he has not really come to teach.
(d) The order in which they come.

2. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?
(a) The fear of mystical leaders.
(b) The monopoly of religion to those with power.
(c) The insignificance of the individual before the state.
(d) The ineffectiveness of mystic rule.

3. What does Chesterton say about the story of Good Friday?
(a) It is why Rome was created.
(b) It is too often read symbolically.
(c) It is a day of demons and paganism.
(d) The best things in the world are at their worst.

4. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?
(a) Great civilizations arose throughout history.
(b) Barbarism can exist in complicated civilizations.
(c) Evidence that the most powerful leaders are revered as gods.
(d) Evidence that the state grew more despotic as it grew more civilized.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?

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

4. According to Chesterton, how do civilization and barbarism interact?

5. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?

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