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

2. What connection does Chesterton make between the boy and the cave-man?
(a) They both draw animals for the same reasons.
(b) They have the same primal urges.
(c) They share the same innocent interpretation of life.
(d) They transcend their heritage.

3. Which of the following does Chesterton note it is important to remember about the psychology of myths?
(a) All of these.
(b) They contain all shades of insincerity.
(c) They contain all shades of sincerity.
(d) They are often strictly local.

4. What does Chesterton say is the real rival to the the Church of Christ?
(a) Familiarity.
(b) Science.
(c) Professors.
(d) Paganism.

5. Which of the following does Chesterton say of myths?
(a) They are not a religion.
(b) All of these.
(c) They do not provide mankind with a creed.
(d) They meet some of the needs of a religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. If men were like other animals, what does Chesterton argue that we should see?

3. What does Chesterton refer to as a cornerstone of humanity?

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

5. Chesterton says cave men cannot be compared to what?

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