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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 propose to accomplish in the book "The Everlasting Man"?
(a) Disprove modern anthropological theories of the origins of mankind.
(b) Explain the importance of the religion.
(c) Convert the disbelieving to Christianity.
(d) Show the uniqueness of the Christian church and of man.

2. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?
(a) None of these.
(b) Christ rising from the grave.
(c) The moment when God had been forsaken of God.
(d) The three Marys.

3. Despite the level of sincerity a myth might be understood, what does Chesterton say is still present?
(a) Fundamental belief.
(b) Reality and religious sentiment.
(c) Superficiality.
(d) Skepticism.

4. According to Chesterton, why are pagan religions so successful and enduring?
(a) They are the only way available to glimpse god.
(b) Mankind finds it natural and empowering to worship something.
(c) They have seeds of truth.
(d) They combine reason and religion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton claim that some people have difficulty perceiving Christianity correctly?

2. Who or what does Chesterton credit with the preservation of the true religion of mankind?

3. To what does Chesterton compare early Christianity?

4. What opinion does Chesterton hold of the concept "realpolitik," or the notion that men fight for material purposes?

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

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