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. What does Chesterton say is important when viewing mankind?
(a) Not comparing him to other animals.
(b) Seeing him through the eyes of religion.
(c) Realizing what a strange animal he is.
(d) Separating him from historical explanations.

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

3. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?
(a) Cave men were child-like.
(b) All of these.
(c) Art is the signature of man.
(d) Cave men were closer to the beasts around them.

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

5. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?
(a) The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.
(b) All of these.
(c) The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it.
(d) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.