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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 say the cross represents?
(a) The joining of two elements.
(b) Breaking out of the circle.
(c) Finality.
(d) Truth in every direction.

2. What does Chesterton say of the more advanced non-western cultures?
(a) They were more barbaric and their religion darker.
(b) They had more fanciful and less dark mythologies.
(c) They had stricter moral rules of relgious conduct.
(d) They were more enlightened and closer to monotheism.

3. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?
(a) Control of the situation.
(b) Education.
(c) Probable distaste for vulgar claims of divinity.
(d) A mastermind.

4. Which of the following statements does Chesterton say about early Christians?
(a) They declared war with the world.
(b) All of these.
(c) Their meekness was an effective tactic.
(d) They knew the future for which they were fighting.

5. According to Chesterton, how was the purity of the Church preserved?
(a) Through its ministers.
(b) Fighting against paganism.
(c) Because the memory of Jesus was near.
(d) Dogmatic definitions and exclusions.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part I, Chapter VII, what new thing does Chesterton say we need?

3. According to Chesterton, how much of the church as ever been threatened by extinction?

4. What accepted social practice common in Christ's time does Chesterton use to exemplify how his teachings are not bound to them?

5. What importance does Chesterton give to the pace at which things go?

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