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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What tactic does Chesterton recommend that people use to see Christianity more fairly?
(a) Temporarily embrace it as a faith to see it from the inside.
(b) Pretend it is a foreign pagan religion and give it the same respect.
(c) Dabble in another religion to have something for comparison.
(d) Talk to foreigners about Christianity and accept their views.

2. How does Chesterton summarize the substance of pagan beliefs and mythologies?
(a) An attempt to reach divine reality through the imagination.
(b) The worshipping of pieces of God.
(c) Colorful forms of entertainment.
(d) Devoid of depth.

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

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

5. What importance does Chesterton give to the pace at which things go?
(a) A fast pace makes things seem like a miracle.
(b) The pace at which things go determines their importance and influence.
(c) The real question is in why they go at all.
(d) The pace at which things go makes no difference on how we perceive them.

6. Why does Chesterton say men fight?
(a) To avoid fear and change.
(b) For justice.
(c) For the love and protection of his home.
(d) For the greater good.

7. How does Chesterton describe the concept of monotheism?
(a) The Everest of spirituality.
(b) The necessary end of all evolving religion.
(c) A terrifying notion for the small minded.
(d) As large and easy to live with as the sky.

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

9. Why does Chesterton claim that some people have difficulty perceiving Christianity correctly?
(a) Their personal experiences as Christians get in the way.
(b) They cannot separate the religion from history.
(c) They are too close to it.
(d) All of these.

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

11. 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 less poetical than the light side.
(c) All of these.
(d) It is more practical than the light side.

12. Where does Chesterton say the history of Rome is best understood?
(a) None of these.
(b) In the blood of the Colosseum.
(c) In the whispers behind doors.
(d) In her politics.

13. What does Chesterton say of the Roman polytheism before the time of Christ?
(a) The gods took on a more domestic nature.
(b) All of these.
(c) The gods became more localized.
(d) The gods became closer to people.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?

2. What does Chesterton take as evidence that evolution is flawed as a way to define the origins of man?

3. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?

4. In what way does Chesterton say the the Christian is worse than the pagan in examples such as Mexico and Carthage?

5. Which one of the following is NOT, according to Chesterton, one of the great mysteries?

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