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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. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?
(a) Through the amalgamation of other pagan religions.
(b) Mankind fears the largeness of a single god and so creates others.
(c) None of these.
(d) Dissention about the details of the one God create different versions of what was originally just one.

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

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

4. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?
(a) Reclassify the major religions of the world by different standards.
(b) Analyze the origins of each religion.
(c) Look at the church from the inside.
(d) Look at Christianity as if it were a foreign religion.

5. What does Chesterton say is the real rival to the the Church of Christ?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Professors.
(c) Familiarity.
(d) Science.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chesterton claims the holy trinity is an upside version of what?

2. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?

3. How does Chesterton wish to view and discuss the earth?

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

5. Chesterton says cave men cannot be compared to what?

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