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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following best describes Chesterton's view of the theory of evolution?
(a) It is blasphemous.
(b) It is a mistaken scientific fad.
(c) It is irrelevant to and disconnected from his topic.
(d) It is useful to explain the world in conjunction with God.

2. Chesterton claims the holy trinity is an upside version of what?
(a) Society.
(b) The three original elements of religion.
(c) The family.
(d) Grandfather-Father-Son.

3. Which of the following is NOT a statement Chesterton makes?
(a) Christianity does appeal to a solid truth outside itself.
(b) Common sense perishes except where there is Christianity to preserve it.
(c) Religion is really not a pattern but a picture.
(d) One must release rationality to fully embrace religion.

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

5. What reason does Chesterton give for acts of cannibalism?
(a) The people are doing the worst thing they can imagine.
(b) The people believe the power of life is transferable.
(c) It is practical for those without the morality to know it is an abomination.
(d) The lack of a true creed and religion.

6. Which of the following is something Chesterton says future scientists will deduce from 20th Century initials carved in stone?
(a) The 20th Century had no cursive or small letters.
(b) All of these.
(c) The 20th Century did not practice the art of sculpture.
(d) The 20th Century had no religion.

7. What does Chesterton say is most present in the mind of man?
(a) Survival.
(b) Reproduction.
(c) His existence itself.
(d) Fear.

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

9. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?
(a) None of these.
(b) The intervention of God.
(c) Animals doing things in the providence of man.
(d) That he might return to be one again.

10. Who does Chesterton say would be the second best judge of Christianity?
(a) An agnostic.
(b) A Christian.
(c) A Confucian.
(d) An atheist.

11. What does Chesterton claim the evidence proves about cave men?
(a) They already had organized religion.
(b) None of these.
(c) They had no way of understanding the world.
(d) They were very much like men today.

12. According to Chesterton, what do mythologies have the power to do?
(a) Provide insight into a belief system.
(b) Display common themes that are universal truths.
(c) None of these.
(d) Unify societies.

13. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?
(a) None of these.
(b) Mankind fears the largeness of a single god and so creates others.
(c) Dissention about the details of the one God create different versions of what was originally just one.
(d) Through the amalgamation of other pagan religions.

14. What reason does Chesterton give that the experiences of the three initial elements of religion cannot be responsible for the rise of mysticism?
(a) Religion is much more complex than the mingling of three experiences.
(b) They are also the experiences of animals who have not become mystics.
(c) No cave art depicts these three things.
(d) They do not provide truth.

15. Chesterton's list of great influential philosophers includes which of the following?
(a) Marcus Aurelius, Socrates, Confucius.
(b) Confucius, Buddha, Akenahten.
(c) Aristotle, Akenahhten, Caesar.
(d) Confucius, Buddha, John the Baptist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is important when viewing mankind?

2. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?

3. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?

4. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?

5. What tactic does Chesterton recommend that people use to see Christianity more fairly?

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