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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: On the Man Called Christ, Chapter II: The Riddles of the Gospel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton think seeing mankind correctly will accomplish?
(a) Restore faith in Christianity.
(b) Lead back to understanding God as creator.
(c) Disprove common anthropological theories.
(d) Throw doubt on evolution.

2. According to Chesterton, why are pagan religions so successful and enduring?
(a) They combine reason and religion.
(b) They have seeds of truth.
(c) They are the only way available to glimpse god.
(d) Mankind finds it natural and empowering to worship something.

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

4. What does Chesterton say the cross represents?
(a) Truth in every direction.
(b) Finality.
(c) The joining of two elements.
(d) Breaking out of the circle.

5. What does say Chesterton say would have been very different if the battle between Carthage and Rome were different?
(a) The common face of religion.
(b) Christendom.
(c) The world.
(d) The struggle which established Christendom.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say would have happened if Christ had not come when he did?

2. According to Chesterton, how much did the philosophies of the great thinkers like Aristotle influence the religious spirit of the time?

3. What two important elements from the past did the arrival of Christ unite, according to Chesterton?

4. What does Chesterton say is the natural result of religion in the home?

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

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