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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 V: Man and Mythologies.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?
(a) All of these.
(b) The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it.
(c) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
(d) The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.

4. Which of the following best describes Chesterton's view of the theory of evolution?
(a) It is blasphemous.
(b) It is irrelevant to and disconnected from his topic.
(c) It is useful to explain the world in conjunction with God.
(d) It is a mistaken scientific fad.

5. What does Chesterton say is important to note about the Iliad, the story of Troy?
(a) It shows us who the Greeks were.
(b) That its sympathies are with the vanquished not the victor.
(c) It is representative of the artistic sensibilities of the time.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what popular religious practice of his time does Chesterton object?

3. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?

4. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?

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

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