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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 importance does Chesterton give to the pace at which things go?
(a) A fast pace makes things seem like a miracle.
(b) The real question is in why they go at all.
(c) The pace at which things go makes no difference on how we perceive them.
(d) The pace at which things go determines their importance and influence.

2. Who does Chesterton claim to be the best judge of Christianity?
(a) A Confucian.
(b) An atheist.
(c) A Christian.
(d) An agnostic.

3. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?
(a) All of these.
(b) Cave men were child-like.
(c) Cave men were closer to the beasts around them.
(d) Art is the signature of man.

4. What does Chesterton say is important when viewing mankind?
(a) Not comparing him to other animals.
(b) Seeing him through the eyes of religion.
(c) Realizing what a strange animal he is.
(d) Separating him from historical explanations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton claim the evidence proves about cave men?

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

3. What does Chesterton say is the simplest truth about mankind?

4. Who does Chesterton say would be the second best judge of Christianity?

5. What does Chesterton say is important to note about the Iliad, the story of Troy?

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