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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton say has been done too much to mythologies of the world?
(a) Analyze their origins.
(b) All of these.
(c) Look for common themes.
(d) Study them scientifically.

3. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?
(a) With the wonder of somebody seeing it for the first time.
(b) From the daily experiences within it.
(c) With the detached impartiality of a martian.
(d) With the eyes of an anthropologist.

4. What does Chesterton propose to accomplish in the book "The Everlasting Man"?
(a) Show the uniqueness of the Christian church and of man.
(b) Disprove modern anthropological theories of the origins of mankind.
(c) Convert the disbelieving to Christianity.
(d) Explain the importance of the religion.

5. What opinion does Chesterton hold of the concept "realpolitik," or the notion that men fight for material purposes?
(a) It is a simplistic rendering of a complex problem.
(b) None of these.
(c) It is an almost insanely unreal concept.
(d) It is true unless the men have religion.

6. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?
(a) Analyze the origins of each religion.
(b) Look at Christianity as if it were a foreign religion.
(c) Reclassify the major religions of the world by different standards.
(d) Look at the church from the inside.

7. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?
(a) The fear of mystical leaders.
(b) The ineffectiveness of mystic rule.
(c) The monopoly of religion to those with power.
(d) The insignificance of the individual before the state.

8. 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) That he might return to be one again.
(d) Animals doing things in the providence of man.

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

10. What religious activity does Chesterton align with Carthage?
(a) Devil worship.
(b) All of these.
(c) Infanticide.
(d) Prayers for materialistic ends.

11. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?
(a) We know nothing regarding their government.
(b) They had no widely spread form of government.
(c) Their leaders were mystics.
(d) Their government was not headed by a leader like the "Old Man."

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

13. In what way does Chesterton say the philosophers gained great influence?
(a) As advisors to kings.
(b) By creating order out of chaos.
(c) By throwing doubt on superstition and false beliefs.
(d) By presenting ideas that explained the natural world.

14. What place does Chesterton say was the center of antiquity?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Babylon.
(c) Mecca.
(d) The Mediterranean.

15. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?
(a) The uniqueness of the situation of the Jewish people.
(b) The uniqueness and variation inherent to fine wine.
(c) The uniqueness of fire compared to painted fire.
(d) The difference between a fine race horse and a donkey.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say of the dark side of paganism or mythology?

2. What does say Chesterton say would have been very different if the battle between Carthage and Rome were different?

3. Where does Chesterton say the history of Rome is best understood?

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. In Part I, Chapter 1, which of the following does Chesterton recommend doing?

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