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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. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?
(a) How ill designed mankind is to survive like a beast.
(b) The need for decoration and artistic expression.
(c) The concept of original sin.
(d) Virtue in cave men.

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

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

4. What does Chesterton think seeing mankind correctly will accomplish?
(a) Restore faith in Christianity.
(b) Lead back to understanding God as creator.
(c) Throw doubt on evolution.
(d) Disprove common anthropological theories.

5. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?
(a) The emergence of religion.
(b) The huge difference between cave men and apes.
(c) Language.
(d) The artistry of cave drawings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?

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

3. In Part I, Chapter 1, which of the following does Chesterton recommend doing?

4. Chesterton claims the holy trinity is an upside version of what?

5. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?

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