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

2. What reason does Chesterton give that the experiences of the three initial elements of religion cannot be responsible for the rise of mysticism?
(a) They do not provide truth.
(b) Religion is much more complex than the mingling of three experiences.
(c) No cave art depicts these three things.
(d) They are also the experiences of animals who have not become mystics.

3. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?
(a) The uniqueness and variation inherent to fine wine.
(b) The uniqueness of the situation of the Jewish people.
(c) The difference between a fine race horse and a donkey.
(d) The uniqueness of fire compared to painted fire.

4. According to Chesterton, how was the purity of the Church preserved?
(a) Fighting against paganism.
(b) Because the memory of Jesus was near.
(c) Through its ministers.
(d) Dogmatic definitions and exclusions.

5. According to Chesterton, how do mythologies differ from religion?
(a) Only one is understandable as truth.
(b) Myths are descriptive while religion is prescriptive.
(c) Only religion offers a moral edict.
(d) The way a portrait differs from a person.