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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 two important elements from the past did the arrival of Christ unite, according to Chesterton?
(a) Religion and exclusion.
(b) Faith and morality.
(c) The beliefs of the shepherds and the philosophers.
(d) God and man.

2. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?
(a) Cave men were child-like.
(b) Art is the signature of man.
(c) All of these.
(d) Cave men were closer to the beasts around them.

3. What accepted social practice common in Christ's time does Chesterton use to exemplify how his teachings are not bound to them?
(a) Slavery.
(b) Infanticide.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Polygamy.

4. What does Chesterton say is one of the fundamental differences in growing up Christian?
(a) The exclusion of all other theologies.
(b) The constant insistence of beliefs.
(c) The closeness to an all powerful being.
(d) The psychological difference caused by being raised on contrasting ideas.

5. 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 next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.
(d) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about paganism?

2. According to Chesterton, what are the very important images upon which Christ founded the church?

3. Which of the following statements does Chesterton say about early Christians?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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