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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If men were like other animals, what does Chesterton argue that we should see?
(a) None of these.
(b) Religion among beasts.
(c) Other animals rising in consciousness and language.
(d) Other animals attempting artistic expression.

2. What does Chesterton say is the real rival to the the Church of Christ?
(a) Science.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Professors.
(d) Paganism.

3. Which of the following does Chesterton say of myths?
(a) They meet some of the needs of a religion.
(b) They are not a religion.
(c) They do not provide mankind with a creed.
(d) All of these.

4. What does Chesterton say is important to note about the Iliad, the story of Troy?
(a) It is representative of the artistic sensibilities of the time.
(b) It shows us who the Greeks were.
(c) None of these.
(d) That its sympathies are with the vanquished not the victor.

5. What sentiment does Chesterton says pervades the ideologies of the far east?
(a) Focus on the self.
(b) Spirituality through physical beauty.
(c) The spirit of repetition and recurrence.
(d) The need for social order.

6. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?
(a) The artistry of cave drawings.
(b) The emergence of religion.
(c) Language.
(d) The huge difference between cave men and apes.

7. What does Chesterton say about superstition?
(a) It is closely related to agnosticism.
(b) All of these.
(c) It is a very human and intelligible sentiment.
(d) It assumes we do not know the laws of the universe.

8. What does Chesterton say is a danger when analyzing mythologies?
(a) That it would be too easy to get lost in the subtleties.
(b) None of these.
(c) That it is a futile pursuit because they are meaningless.
(d) That they may seem to be understood.

9. How does Chesterton say a myth must be appreciated?
(a) As hints of a fundamental belief.
(b) With a poetical, childlike attitude.
(c) In context of the people who created it.
(d) Metaphorically.

10. What does Chesterton say is missing from the popular depiction of prehistory?
(a) Humor.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) The family unit.
(d) Practicality.

11. What commonality does Chesterton give to the three elements from which religion supposedly arose?
(a) They already carried a mystical sentiment.
(b) They had to do with life and death.
(c) All of these.
(d) They each had direct influence on the well being of the people.

12. What does Chesterton say of the dark side of paganism or mythology?
(a) They have a feeling of no nonsense about them.
(b) It is more practical than the light side.
(c) It is less poetical than the light side.
(d) All of these.

13. What does Chesterton refer to as a cornerstone of humanity?
(a) Monotheism.
(b) The Old Testament.
(c) The book of Job.
(d) Christianity.

14. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about paganism?
(a) That paganism is the root of all practice within Christianity.
(b) Paganism is used to explain human fears.
(c) That even pagan religions incorporate the notion of one all powerful supreme being.
(d) That paganism naturally subsides in the face of Christianity.

15. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?
(a) The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.
(b) The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it.
(c) All of these.
(d) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, why are pagan religions so successful and enduring?

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

3. What does Chesterton say should not be done with mythologies?

4. Why does Chesterton say men fight?

5. What does Chesterton say has been done too much to mythologies of the world?

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