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

2. What does Chesterton compare to the variation found in cheeses or wine?
(a) The way mankind worships the one true God.
(b) The theories of scientists to explain the same phenomenon.
(c) The variations within the Church of Christ.
(d) The forms of paganism.

3. What happens when an onlooker tries to envision the church as a member of a throng of superstitions lobbying for believers?
(a) The future of the church becomes uncertain.
(b) One can see clearly the universal truth of all religions.
(c) God becomes non-existent.
(d) One sees the difference of the church from other religions.

4. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?
(a) Egypt and Babylon are both fallen cultures.
(b) The refinement of the Chinese culture sets it apart from the others.
(c) Egypt and Babylon are linked to biblical places.
(d) Egypt and Babylon are part of his cultural tradition.

5. Which one of the following is NOT, according to Chesterton, one of the great mysteries?
(a) The origin of mankind.
(b) The origin of God.
(c) The origin of life.
(d) The origin of the universe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tactic does Chesterton recommend that people use to see Christianity more fairly?

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

3. What commonality does Chesterton give to the three elements from which religion supposedly arose?

4. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?

5. Which of the following does Chesterton say of myths?

(see the answer key)

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