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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. Why does Chesterton claim that some people have difficulty perceiving Christianity correctly?
(a) All of these.
(b) They cannot separate the religion from history.
(c) Their personal experiences as Christians get in the way.
(d) They are too close to it.
2. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?
(a) The intuitiveness.
(b) The suggestion that he has not really come to teach.
(c) All of these.
(d) The order in which they come.
3. What does Chesterton insist is a common error?
(a) To oversimply the end of Rome.
(b) To not give Romans their due.
(c) To insist on the smallness of the Mediterranean world in which all of this occurred.
(d) To think that things would have gone on as they had always been.
4. In Part I, Chapter VII, what new thing does Chesterton say we need?
(a) A psychological history.
(b) A certification program for religions.
(c) Standards for world creeds.
(d) Imagination in our world view.
5. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?
(a) The monopoly of religion to those with power.
(b) The fear of mystical leaders.
(c) The ineffectiveness of mystic rule.
(d) The insignificance of the individual before the state.
Short Answer Questions
1. To what does Chesterton compare early Christianity?
2. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements Chesterton says are popularly believed to be the root of religion?
3. What does Chesterton say of society and the church during the rise of Christianity?
4. In what way does Chesterton say the the Christian is worse than the pagan in examples such as Mexico and Carthage?
5. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?
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