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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. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?
(a) Animals doing things in the providence of man.
(b) None of these.
(c) The intervention of God.
(d) That he might return to be one again.

2. What commonality does Chesterton give to the three elements from which religion supposedly arose?
(a) They had to do with life and death.
(b) They each had direct influence on the well being of the people.
(c) All of these.
(d) They already carried a mystical sentiment.

3. What form of humanity does Chesterton claim is the unit of the state, or the cell that makes up the formation?
(a) Family.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Male lineage.
(d) Motherhood.

4. Who does Chesterton claim to be the best judge of Christianity?
(a) An agnostic.
(b) A Christian.
(c) A Confucian.
(d) An atheist.

5. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?
(a) Theories that are sensational but untrue.
(b) The inability to experiment or directly observe.
(c) None of these.
(d) The scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what popular religious practice of his time does Chesterton object?

2. What does Chesterton say is the simplest truth about mankind?

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

4. Who or what does Chesterton credit with the preservation of the true religion of mankind?

5. What does Chesterton take as evidence that evolution is flawed as a way to define the origins of man?

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