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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: On the Man Called Christ, Chapter V: The Escape from Paganism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is most present in the mind of man?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) Survival.
(c) Fear.
(d) His existence itself.

2. In what way does Chesterton say the philosophers gained great influence?
(a) By throwing doubt on superstition and false beliefs.
(b) By presenting ideas that explained the natural world.
(c) By creating order out of chaos.
(d) As advisors to kings.

3. According to Chesterton, what are the very important images upon which Christ founded the church?
(a) A key and Peter as a rock.
(b) A rock and a risen God.
(c) A new world and a key.
(d) A beacon of light and an eternal father.

4. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?
(a) All of these.
(b) The mixing of religion and revolution.
(c) Subservience to an all powerful God.
(d) The exaltation of childhood.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?

2. What does Chesterton say Europe would look like if it had continued in paganism?

3. What kind of paganism does Chesterton say they practiced in Rome?

4. What great paradox rests at the heart of Christianity?

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

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