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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion: The Summary of This Book and Appendices.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton claim the evidence proves about cave men?
(a) They already had organized religion.
(b) They were very much like men today.
(c) None of these.
(d) They had no way of understanding the world.

2. What does Chesterton say about the teachings of Christ?
(a) None of these.
(b) They are paradoxes.
(c) They are not meant to be accomplished.
(d) They did not fit in his own time any better than they do now.

3. 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 are also the experiences of animals who have not become mystics.
(b) They do not provide truth.
(c) Religion is much more complex than the mingling of three experiences.
(d) No cave art depicts these three things.

4. According to Chesterton, how do civilization and barbarism interact?
(a) They return in cycles.
(b) Civilization is a reaction to barbarism.
(c) None of these.
(d) They have always existed side-by-side.

5. According to Chesterton, how much of the church as ever been threatened by extinction?
(a) All of it but a ghost.
(b) The superficial practices.
(c) None of it.
(d) Perhaps up to half.

Short Answer Questions

1. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?

2. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?

3. Which of the following is NOT one of the three distinct things that make up one in the Christmas story?

4. What popular belief about the New Testament does Chesterton refute?

5. In what way does Chesterton say the the Christian is worse than the pagan in examples such as Mexico and Carthage?

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