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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 III: The Antiquity of Civilisation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chesterton interpret the title of the book, "The Evolution of the Idea of God"?
(a) How mankind has lost their way.
(b) I will show you how this nonsensical notion that there is a God grew up among men.
(c) How God changes to suit the needs of every time and place.
(d) The growth of understanding morality.

2. 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) None of these.
(d) Animals doing things in the providence of man.

3. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?
(a) Theories that are sensational but untrue.
(b) The inability to experiment or directly observe.
(c) The scientists.
(d) None of these.

4. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?
(a) The suggested violence of men to women.
(b) Their pagan worship.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their proximity to apes.

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. What reason does Chesterton give that the experiences of the three initial elements of religion cannot be responsible for the rise of mysticism?

2. What form of humanity does Chesterton claim is the unit of the state, or the cell that makes up the formation?

3. Which one of the following is NOT, according to Chesterton, one of the great mysteries?

4. What does Chesterton say about epochs of nomadism or matriarchy in history and prehistory?

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

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