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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 does Chesterton say is the natural result of religion in the home?
(a) Religious strife.
(b) Revolt in public life.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Polytheism.

2. In Part I, Chapter 1, which of the following does Chesterton recommend doing?
(a) Rejecting science.
(b) Turning to religion for answers.
(c) Accepting mankind without explaining it.
(d) Maintaining a universal perspective.

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

4. Who does Chesterton claim to be the best judge of Christianity?
(a) An agnostic.
(b) An atheist.
(c) A Christian.
(d) A Confucian.

5. What tactic does Chesterton recommend that people use to see Christianity more fairly?
(a) Dabble in another religion to have something for comparison.
(b) Talk to foreigners about Christianity and accept their views.
(c) Temporarily embrace it as a faith to see it from the inside.
(d) Pretend it is a foreign pagan religion and give it the same respect.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Chesterton compare early Christianity?

2. Which of the following does Chesterton say of myths?

3. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?

4. What does Chesterton say is most present in the mind of man?

5. Chesterton's list of great influential philosophers includes which of the following?

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