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

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

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

4. What does Chesterton think physical anthropologists do to excess?
(a) Name the objects of their theories.
(b) Theorize from very little evidence.
(c) Glorify their theories.
(d) Invest themselves into their theories.

5. What connection does Chesterton make between the boy and the cave-man?
(a) They transcend their heritage.
(b) They have the same primal urges.
(c) They share the same innocent interpretation of life.
(d) They both draw animals for the same reasons.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements Chesterton says are popularly believed to be the root of religion?

2. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?

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

4. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?

5. What happens when an onlooker tries to envision the church as a member of a throng of superstitions lobbying for believers?

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