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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What connection does Chesterton make between the boy and the cave-man?
(a) They share the same innocent interpretation of life.
(b) They transcend their heritage.
(c) They have the same primal urges.
(d) They both draw animals for the same reasons.

4. What does Chesterton compare to the variation found in cheeses or wine?
(a) The way mankind worships the one true God.
(b) The forms of paganism.
(c) The theories of scientists to explain the same phenomenon.
(d) The variations within the Church of Christ.

5. Which of the following does Chesterton note it is important to remember about the psychology of myths?
(a) All of these.
(b) They are often strictly local.
(c) They contain all shades of sincerity.
(d) They contain all shades of insincerity.

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

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

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

9. What does Chesterton describe in the introduction as if being seen for the first time?
(a) St. Francis slaying the dragon.
(b) A horse.
(c) The church.
(d) A cathedral.

10. What does Chesterton think physical anthropologists do to excess?
(a) Invest themselves into their theories.
(b) Glorify their theories.
(c) Name the objects of their theories.
(d) Theorize from very little evidence.

11. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?
(a) How ill designed mankind is to survive like a beast.
(b) The need for decoration and artistic expression.
(c) The concept of original sin.
(d) Virtue in cave men.

12. What does Chesterton say is important when viewing mankind?
(a) Realizing what a strange animal he is.
(b) Separating him from historical explanations.
(c) Not comparing him to other animals.
(d) Seeing him through the eyes of religion.

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

14. What does Chesterton think of the theory that mankind is solely motivated by economic reasons of subsistence?
(a) That it is the primary motivating factor only when subsistence is threatened.
(b) That it is absolutely untrue.
(c) That it is true except in the case of religion.
(d) That it is fundamentally and universally true.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following best describes Chesterton's view of the theory of evolution?

3. Which of the following is something Chesterton says future scientists will deduce from 20th Century initials carved in stone?

4. According to Chesterton, how do mythologies differ from religion?

5. How does Chesterton describe the concept of monotheism?

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