This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter III: The Antiquity of Civilisation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?
(a) The monopoly of religion to those with power.
(b) The insignificance of the individual before the state.
(c) The fear of mystical leaders.
(d) The ineffectiveness of mystic rule.

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

4. Which of the following best describes Chesterton's view of the theory of evolution?
(a) It is blasphemous.
(b) It is a mistaken scientific fad.
(c) It is irrelevant to and disconnected from his topic.
(d) It is useful to explain the world in conjunction with God.

5. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?
(a) Evidence to refute the commonly held notion of barbarism and civilization.
(b) A society that has no evidence of being nomadic.
(c) Nomads who do not evolve into a more civilized state.
(d) All of these.