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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 wish to view and discuss the earth?
(a) In a familiar fashion.
(b) From a scientific viewpoint.
(c) From an astronomical standpoint.
(d) As the most important planet.

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

3. What form of humanity does Chesterton claim is the unit of the state, or the cell that makes up the formation?
(a) Male lineage.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Family.
(d) Motherhood.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton describe in the introduction as if being seen for the first time?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements Chesterton says are popularly believed to be the root of religion?

4. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?

5. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?

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