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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 IV: The Witness of the Heretics.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) Comparative degrees.
(b) A story within a story.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Parallel plots.

2. What does Chesterton say about Rome in the 4th Century?
(a) It was barbarous.
(b) It had no moral system in place.
(c) It was undeniably a civilization.
(d) It was the ruins of a civilization.

3. What does Chesterton say should not be done with mythologies?
(a) See them as merely fanciful stories.
(b) Study them scientifically.
(c) Read them as representative of religion.
(d) Try to relate to them.

4. What does Chesterton say is most present in the mind of man?
(a) Reproduction.
(b) His existence itself.
(c) Fear.
(d) Survival.

5. What does Chesterton insist is a common error?
(a) To not give Romans their due.
(b) To oversimply the end of Rome.
(c) To think that things would have gone on as they had always been.
(d) To insist on the smallness of the Mediterranean world in which all of this occurred.

Short Answer Questions

1. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?

2. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?

3. Where does Chesterton say the history of Rome is best understood?

4. How does Chesterton describe the concept of monotheism?

5. What does Chesterton say is important when viewing mankind?

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