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

2. What statement does Chesterton make about Wells's outline of the world?
(a) All of these answers.
(b) It is only wrong as an outline.
(c) It is a fascinating disquisition on history.
(d) It's proportions are wrong.

3. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?
(a) Egypt and Babylon are part of his cultural tradition.
(b) Egypt and Babylon are both fallen cultures.
(c) Egypt and Babylon are linked to biblical places.
(d) The refinement of the Chinese culture sets it apart from the others.

4. Chesterton called the Church the mortal enemy of what movement?
(a) Manichean.
(b) Pacifist.
(c) Aescetic.
(d) Gnostic.

5. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?
(a) The suggestion that he has not really come to teach.
(b) All of these.
(c) The intuitiveness.
(d) The order in which they come.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say about epochs of nomadism or matriarchy in history and prehistory?

2. What does Chesterton say would have happened if Christ had not come when he did?

3. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?

4. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?

5. What does Chesterton say was the reaction of the populace to the rising Christian movement?

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