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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 popular belief about the New Testament does Chesterton refute?
(a) That the books of the New Testament are contradictory.
(b) That Jesus was a merciful and humane lover of humanity.
(c) That Jesus was apolitical.
(d) That the scriptures need interpretation.

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

3. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?
(a) Their proximity to apes.
(b) All of these.
(c) Their pagan worship.
(d) The suggested violence of men to women.

4. What does Chesterton argue is the case of Asian religions and Islam?
(a) They will fade out naturally.
(b) They are too far removed from politics.
(c) They are too removed from ethics.
(d) They leave out fundamental ideals.

5. What statement does Chesterton emphatically make about Christianity?
(a) It turned mythology into a religious system for the whole world.
(b) Its concepts are not connected to paganism from the past.
(c) Compared to it, all other systems are narrow.
(d) It created mankind as we know it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?

2. What side of Christ does Chesterton say the church emphasizes?

3. What does Chesterton say started to infect Rome and weaken her moral standing?

4. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?

5. When morality and faith in the gods was crumbling in Rome, what else does Chesterton say was crumbling?

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