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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part I, Chapter 1, which of the following does Chesterton recommend doing?
(a) Rejecting science.
(b) Turning to religion for answers.
(c) Maintaining a universal perspective.
(d) Accepting mankind without explaining it.

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

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

5. Chesterton says cave men cannot be compared to what?
(a) Other primates.
(b) Modern savages.
(c) Anthropological projections.
(d) Modern artists.

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Chesterton take as evidence that evolution is flawed as a way to define the origins of man?
(a) None of these.
(b) The missing link.
(c) The changing nature of the theories.
(d) The fact that mankind is apparently not evolving now.

12. What does Chesterton say is the relationship between reason and religion?
(a) They are separate, except in Christendom.
(b) They work together to create a whole.
(c) They appease each other.
(d) They are two sides of our world view.

13. According to Chesterton, why are pagan religions so successful and enduring?
(a) They are the only way available to glimpse god.
(b) Mankind finds it natural and empowering to worship something.
(c) They combine reason and religion.
(d) They have seeds of truth.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton classify the natural progression of myth and religion?

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

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

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

5. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?

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