This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter II: Professors and Prehistoric Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?
(a) With the wonder of somebody seeing it for the first time.
(b) With the detached impartiality of a martian.
(c) From the daily experiences within it.
(d) With the eyes of an anthropologist.

3. What reason does Chesterton give that the experiences of the three initial elements of religion cannot be responsible for the rise of mysticism?
(a) Religion is much more complex than the mingling of three experiences.
(b) No cave art depicts these three things.
(c) They are also the experiences of animals who have not become mystics.
(d) They do not provide truth.

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

5. Which one of the following is NOT, according to Chesterton, one of the great mysteries?
(a) The origin of life.
(b) The origin of the universe.
(c) The origin of mankind.
(d) The origin of God.