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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter IV: God and Comparative Religion.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is something Chesterton says future scientists will deduce from 20th Century initials carved in stone?
(a) The 20th Century had no religion.
(b) All of these.
(c) The 20th Century did not practice the art of sculpture.
(d) The 20th Century had no cursive or small letters.

2. What does Chesterton refer to as a cornerstone of humanity?
(a) The book of Job.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) Monotheism.
(d) Christianity.

3. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?
(a) We know nothing regarding their government.
(b) Their leaders were mystics.
(c) They had no widely spread form of government.
(d) Their government was not headed by a leader like the "Old Man."

4. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?
(a) Helen.
(b) Hector.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Achilles.

5. What does Chesterton say is the simplest truth about mankind?
(a) Mankind is made in the image of God.
(b) Mankind is a very strange being.
(c) Mankind is a microcosm of the universe.
(d) Mankind is the only religious being.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?

2. In Part I, Chapter 1, which of the following does Chesterton recommend doing?

3. If men were like other animals, what does Chesterton argue that we should see?

4. What commonality does Chesterton give to the three elements from which religion supposedly arose?

5. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?

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