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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 irrelevant to and disconnected from his topic.
(b) It is useful to explain the world in conjunction with God.
(c) It is blasphemous.
(d) It is a mistaken scientific fad.

2. According to Chesterton, how do mythologies differ from religion?
(a) Only one is understandable as truth.
(b) Myths are descriptive while religion is prescriptive.
(c) Only religion offers a moral edict.
(d) The way a portrait differs from a person.

3. How does Chesterton wish to view and discuss the earth?
(a) As the most important planet.
(b) In a familiar fashion.
(c) From an astronomical standpoint.
(d) From a scientific viewpoint.

4. 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.

5. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?
(a) Evidence that the most powerful leaders are revered as gods.
(b) Great civilizations arose throughout history.
(c) Evidence that the state grew more despotic as it grew more civilized.
(d) Barbarism can exist in complicated civilizations.

6. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?
(a) Theories that are sensational but untrue.
(b) None of these.
(c) The inability to experiment or directly observe.
(d) The scientists.

7. 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.

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

9. What religious activity does Chesterton align with Carthage?
(a) Devil worship.
(b) Prayers for materialistic ends.
(c) Infanticide.
(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) Paganism is used to explain human fears.
(c) That paganism is the root of all practice within Christianity.
(d) That paganism naturally subsides in the face of Christianity.

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

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

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

14. What does Chesterton say is missing from the popular depiction of prehistory?
(a) Humor.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) The family unit.
(d) Practicality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is the natural result of religion in the home?

2. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?

3. What does Chesterton say about the idea of reincarnation?

4. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?

5. What does Chesterton propose to accomplish in the book "The Everlasting Man"?

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