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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. How does Chesterton interpret the title of the book, "The Evolution of the Idea of God"?
(a) How mankind has lost their way.
(b) How God changes to suit the needs of every time and place.
(c) I will show you how this nonsensical notion that there is a God grew up among men.
(d) The growth of understanding morality.

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

3. Which of the following does Chesterton NOT list as one of the five deaths of the faith?
(a) The renaissance.
(b) The fall of Rome.
(c) The rise of Islam.
(d) The end of the dark ages.

4. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) Comparative degrees.
(b) Parallel plots.
(c) A story within a story.
(d) Foreshadowing.

5. Chesterton says cave men cannot be compared to what?
(a) Modern savages.
(b) Modern artists.
(c) Other primates.
(d) Anthropological projections.

Short Answer Questions

1. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?

2. What does Chesterton propose to accomplish in the book "The Everlasting Man"?

3. What does Chesterton call the death of Socrates?

4. What reason does Chesterton give that the experiences of the three initial elements of religion cannot be responsible for the rise of mysticism?

5. What does Chesterton say of the more advanced non-western cultures?

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