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

2. What does Chesterton say is the simplest truth about mankind?
(a) Mankind is the only religious being.
(b) Mankind is a microcosm of the universe.
(c) Mankind is made in the image of God.
(d) Mankind is a very strange being.

3. What does Chesterton think physical anthropologists do to excess?
(a) Glorify their theories.
(b) Invest themselves into their theories.
(c) Theorize from very little evidence.
(d) Name the objects of their theories.

4. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?
(a) Egypt and Babylon.
(b) Egypt and Mazatlan.
(c) Rome and Greece.
(d) Egypt and Rome.

5. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?
(a) We know nothing regarding their government.
(b) Their government was not headed by a leader like the "Old Man."
(c) They had no widely spread form of government.
(d) Their leaders were mystics.

Short Answer Questions

1. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?

2. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?

3. What does Chesterton propose to accomplish in the book "The Everlasting Man"?

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

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

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